Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

Silent convoys that sailed under the cover of the night, risky landing operations, naval battles in the open sea, José Luis Caballero covers these facts and much more in his narrative analysis. The naval battles, recreated with great mastery and precision, shows us the cruelty and epic ways of fighting during World War II. Convoyes silenciosos que navegaban al amparo de la noche, arriesgadas operaciones de desembarco, combates navales a mar abierto, acorazados capaces de destruir el enemigo con sus cañones de largo alcance, torpedos humanos, portaviones atentos a la aparición de kamikazes. ...

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La idea de lo que es hoy Europa está fundada en su pasado y en el camino que recorre hacia el futuro. La suya es una historia formidable y viva, conformada por un mosaico de pueblos con tradiciones, lenguas y puntos de vista distintos, pero primordial en tanto que denota una gran riqueza y diversidad en un mundo cada vez más homogéneo. En esta nueva edición ampliamente revisada, José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec repasa y analiza la evolución de las culturas del continente europeo a través de los grandes acontecimientos, problemas y circunstancias que la han jalonado. El resultado es una obra...

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...