Baja California Sur

"Assesses the local impact of the Bourbon reforms on northwest Mexico and sheds light on the effectiveness - or lack thereof - of the reform plan"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

Este libro cuenta la historia de un mundo en transformación y de una sociedad, la peruana, que ansiaba una vida mejor. Aunque compartido, este anhelo tenía significados distintos para los diferentes secrores de la heterogénea sociedad colonial. De ahí que las luchas por la independencia peruana fueran al mismo tiempo una guerra civil y una guerra internacional, una guerra de poder y una guerra de ideas, que involucró a todos los estamentos en pos de sus propios intereses y sueños.

?la lectura y el conocimiento sobre este periodo de la historia de España son imprescindibles para entender nuestro presente.? (BBC Historia, Diciembre2010) ?Aunque todos sabemos cómo acaba esta historia de la república española, Luis E. Iñigo Fernández hace que la vivamos con pasión manteniéndonos en vilo continuo como si al acabar la lectura nos fuéramos a llevar una sorpresa. Todo está vendido en el devenir de los republicanos en aquella época pero el autor no hace que la narración caiga en un aburrido ensayo de datos continuos? (Web Hislibris) El 14 de Abril de 1931, una...