Mujeres para un romance

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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...

La detallada radiografía de un episodio que marcó el devenir de nuestra historia contemporánea y de la del resto del mundo. Una herida abierta en el centro de Europa, de lenta curación. Nos presenta en este libro Íñigo Bolinaga una completa visión del conflicto armado más determinante en la historia española contemporánea. El autor no pretende hacer una mera enumeración de acontecimientos y una descripción de la guerra basada en un listado de batallas, vencedores y vencidos, sino que hunde de lleno su mirada en las causas que llevaron al enfrentamiento fratricida, en las causas...

Given P. Naster's numismatic, art historical, and archaeological background, and his expertise in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern subjects, the presentations to his 'Festschrift' cover a broad thematic and temporal span. The papers of volume II may be divided into the following general categories: philology (including general, Greek/Latin, Egyptian, South Arabian, Hebrew, Persian), Assyriology, Art History, Egyptology, and Anthropology, History, Hittite/Anatolian studies, Persian religion, and historical geography. Obviously, some studies will cover more than one definitive area.