Hispania

But other emperors, such as Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, infamously used their power to indulge vice and harm others. Ever since their publication, Suetonius' imperial biographies have appealed to readers, both because of their sensational stories and the larger questions of power they raise. They spawned many sequels in antiquity (as well as more recent works like Robert Graves's famed, I, Claudius). While a number of good English translations are in print, reading Lives of the Caesar from cover to cover can be daunting, so many details are included. Also general readers, including...

Oleksandr Pronkevich, Tetyana Nizhelovska Pereginets, Iryna Bonatska, Olena Bratel, Olga Mayevska, Oksana Kushnir (eds). Actas del X Congreso de Hispanistas de Ucrania, Universidad Nacional Tarás Shevchenko de Kyiv, 20 y 21 de septiembre de 2019. Lviv : Astroliabio Editorial, 2020. El libro contiene los ensayos dedicados a la historia de hispanismo en Ucrania y las ponencias presentadas durante el X Congreso de Hispanistas de Ucrania que tuvo lugar en la Universidad Nacional Tarás Shevchenko de Kyiv, 20 y 21 de septiembre de 2019. Las obras publicadas pueden servir de gran provecho en el...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

A finales de 1776, apenas seis meses después de la histórica Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, la Revolución americana agonizaba. Nueva York había caído y el Ejército Continental de George Washington se batía en retirada. Filadelfia, sede del Congreso Continental, parecía tener las horas contadas. La recién nacida nación norteamericana carecía de marina, de artillería que se preciara, de preparación militar, de pólvora... y de posibilidades reales de derrotar a Gran Bretaña; al menos por sí sola. Hermanos de armas. La intervención de España y Francia que...