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This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...

A fines de abril de 2006 remueve al acontecer político y social el movimiento de estudiantes secundarios. Uno de los hechos importantes ocurridos al iniciar el siglo, recogido aquí en cinco miradas, que alimentan la memoria y alientan el debate.

Vírgenes de Madrid, devoción, historia, mito y leyendas, es uno de los libros que con interés y afán más desbordante habrán de leer quienes por cualquier circunstancia estén sensibilizados con los temas de Madrid y estos, tal y como la demuestran diversas estadísticas, aumentan en número cada día más creciente. Madrid interesa hoy mucho y a muchos. El nuevo libro de Antonio Aradillas y José María Íñigo viene a llenar unas deficiencias en la historia de Madrid, que eran muchos en sentir y en lamentar. La Virgen, bajo las más diversas advocaciones, es sobre todo en Madrid...

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