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Cuando Colón llegó a América en 1492 encontró un Nuevo Mundo muy distinto del Viejo, del cual había partido. ¿Por qué habían evolucionado de manera tan distinta? Para averiguarlo Watson emprende una experiencia de arqueología cognitiva, basada en la interacción que existe entre las ideas de los seres humanos y las realidades naturales de su entorno, con el fin de ofrecernos una visión comparada de la evolución de las civilizaciones, las creencias y las formas de vida en Eurasia y en América. Basándose en los más recientes hallazgos de la arqueología y de la ciencia, Watson nos ...

Magnates, bandoleers, politicians, drug traffickers, clerics, and public figures comprise this history of the Sicilian Mafia. More than being merely an amalgamation of stories about organized crime, this history of the Sicilian Mafia is dense with political and social analysis. Analyzing historical documents, this book investigates the criminal processes that originated in Italy and, through formal and informal alliances, have spread to the international community.

Contains entries that provide information about first names selected from the Mexican-American culture but meaningful to the Spanish-speaking of North America; arranged alphabetically by Spanish name, with transliterations, gender indicators, English equivalents, descriptions, diminutives, and variants.

Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the...