Las universidades durante el proceso de democratización española (1968-1983)

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

El historiador Antonio De Abreu Xavier escudriña a través de numerosísimas fuentes, en especial historias de vida, tanto las privaciones cotidianas en Portugal –que impulsaron a miles de hombres y mujeres a cruzar el Atlántico– como las condiciones cambiantes de la sociedad venezolana, a las que se adaptaron los recién llegados en diferentes oleadas migratorias. Por su doble mirada, esta es una obra inédita en la historiografía venezolana de la inmigración. Fraguado en el año 2002 como proyecto de Doctorado en Historia en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, este libro asienta de ...

Morales' "Historia de las islas Marianas" seems to predate Le Gobien's "Historie des isles Marianes" and was probably used as the basis for Le Gobien's work. Le Gobien attributed some of the investigative work for his book to Morales but the editor makes the case that the opposite was true