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¿Qué tienen en común Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar y Juan Carlos Onetti? Se pregunta el autor de este libro que les sigue los pasos a los tres escritores. Su interés por encontrar lectores activos y curiosos es una de las respuestas a esa pregunta inicial. Lecturas cómplices. En busca de García Márquez, Cortázar y Onetti presenta un conjunto de textos, escritos a lo largo de un cuarto de siglo, que exploran, profundizan, aclaran, conjeturan, vuelven sobre temas recurrentes y se enriquecen con búsquedas y hallazgos sobre el legado de tres de los escritores más destacados...

Title: Historia de Salamanca. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library...

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In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

El estudio del período sobre la Independencia de Venezuela pareciera ser un tema maldito. Deformado por unos, ocultado por otros. Asociado más a creencias que a ideas e interpretaciones históricas. Vinculado estrechamente al mito y la leyenda, ha servido para robustecer una conciencia e identidad nacional sobre la deformación del mismo pasado. La Independencia de Venezuela, al igual que en el resto de América, significó una ruptura en el tiempo; un verdadero proceso revolucionario con repercusiones mundiales que terminó indigestándose a sus propios protagonistas. «Guerra a favor de...