Historia del mundo sin los trozos aburridos

Las corrientes ideológicas importantes durante la independencia de México, para Villoro, fueron dos: la surgida de la historia hispánica y la deudora del Despotismo Ilustrado y de la Revolución francesa. Así, el filósofo analiza desde los elementos situacionales hasta las actividades históricas que se manifestaron décadas después.

The third edition of this respected text has been thoroughly updated to reflect post–Cold War developments that have had a dramatic impact on virtually every aspect of Latin America's international relations. East-West conflict, which was played out especially in Central America and the Caribbean, is no longer relevant. At the same time, Latin American states have undergone political and economic transformations. Consequently, other issues—such as trade and investment, democracy and human rights, immigrants and refugees, drug trafficking, and the physical environment—have risen in...

Las Cortes fueron la institución más importante y representativa del reino de Valencia en la época medieval. El presente libro se centra en tres procesos celebrados en los últimos años del reinado de Pedro IV, el Ceremonioso: los de 1369-1370, 1371 y 1375-1376. La obra se divide en tres partes: la transcripción de las actas resultantes de dichos procesos, el estudio de lo acontecido en cada una de las reuniones y el análisis de los hechos históricos que se reflejan en ellas, como la reforma del sistema fiscal que llevó a cabo el monarca, su política exterior en el Mediterráneo o la ...

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...