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Animal, vegetal, basuraThe story of Homo sapiens is often told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental driver: food. How we hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our most primitive technology, our earliest food systems,...
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PresidioThe Spanish presence in the territory of what is now the United States of America lasted three hundred years. The presidio-missions binomial was the cornerstone of its conquest, Christianization and defense, both from the internal threat posed by the Indians, and from the external...
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Afganistán. Historia de un estado fallidoAfghanistan is a country shrouded in a web of stereotypes and prejudices that make it unique among other nations. This book explores the complex process of state formation in the late 19th century, using both local and English sources, with an in-depth look at...
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Mujer se naceThe history of mankind begins with the invention of writing more than five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Prehistory includes the knowledge of the previous time, where there are no written records, but there are records of another order, such as burial...
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El exterminio de las tribus indias de NorteaméricaCan the existence of the United States be understood without talking about genocide? How much indigenous blood did it take to baptize the land of the free and the home of the brave? How did its governments manage to legitimize the colonization of the...
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PaxThe Pax Romana, a revered golden age, saw the Roman Empire at its peak, stretching from Scotland to Arabia and containing a quarter of humanity. Starting in 69 AD with four Caesars in quick succession and ending with Hadrian’s death seven decades later, Pax...
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Las arterias del mundoweight: 400;">The rivers have always been there. They have served as roads and borders for us; they have quenched our thirst and have been dyed with our blood; they have moved our machines and destroyed our crops and our homes; they have brought us...
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La FloridaThis is the chronicle of a territory marked by adversity and the fight for survival. From its "discovery" by Ponce de León in 1513 until its delivery to England in 1763, it witnessed a battle to remain under the rule of the Spanish Crown....
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La inquisición españolaDespite what the vast majority thinks, the Inquisition did not originate in Spain, but was a Vatican creation to put an end to the spread of the Cathar or Albigensian heresy in France, which spread throughout Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries. The...
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Mestizaje y Leyenda negraThis work dismantles the black legend through interethnicity. The marriage union between people of different cultures and races, which occurred widely in the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy, implies the assumption of equality between persons belonging to different races. The countless families thus created...
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Por tierrras extrañasIn 1528 an expedition set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But all went awfully wrong and it turned into a desperate journey of survival. Of the four hundred men who had embarked, only four survived and they wandered through the Southwest for ten...
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DominioCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion - an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus - was to...
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Sionismo. Orígenes y textos fundacionales del Estado de IsraelWhen and why was the State of Israel founded? What ideas underlie it? What causes and aspirations underpin such a great event in world history? The pages of this volume offer answers to the questions posed, revealing, in addition, the foundations of some of...
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Mujeres que gobernaron el mundoIn today's political landscape, women rulers are rare. However, thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women were pharaohs who controlled an authoritarian state in times of war and peace. Despite their success, they often ended up being used as mere pawns in a...
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El ShaIn Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, infamous dictator, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From...
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Continente salvaje (nueva edición)World War II left Europe in chaos. Landscapes and crops destroyed, cities completely devastated and more than 35 million dead. In most of the continent, institutions such as the police, the media, transportation, local and national governments, had ceased to exist. Crime rates rose,...
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The Violent Far West and its WeaponsThe violent Conquest of the West, the Far West, represents the essence of the formation of the current United States, since it amalgamates many of the identity characteristics, aspirations, and contradictions that exist at the origin of this nation. Focusing on the weapons used...
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Banderas LejanasThe feat of exploration, conquest and defense that Spain carried out, for 300 years, in what is now the United States of America is a capital historical event. Spaniards were the first Europeans to sight the Colorado Canyon, cross the Mississippi River, cross the...
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El último emperador de MéxicoThe true story of Maximilian and Carlota and their turbulent reign in Mexico. This is history's judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke who in 1864 crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He...
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The Bright AgesA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages and takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with...
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