50 viñetas que cambiaron el mundo

An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

Mediante una reconstrucción del Porfiriato, esta obra realiza un análisis e interpretación de la realidad social de esta época. Aborda el papel que jugaron personajes como José Yves Limantour, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada y Justo Sierra y "los científicos" en la construcción de la ideología porfirista y la legitimación del régimen; la economía mexicana, su desarrollo y las transformaciones que sufrió desde 1877; las políticas hacendarias y la reforma monetaria de principios del siglo XX, y los factores políticos intervencionistas que llevaron a la crisis y culminación del...

Gli undici saggi qui raccolti ripropongono i frutti ancora attuali di un incontro tenuto a Pisa nel 1998 tra studiosi spagnoli, italiani e francesi sui rapporti tra gli Stati italiani e la Spagna durante il periodo della "preponderanza" di quest'ultima. Tema classico, che à ̈ stato considerato in questo caso in un'ottica interdisciplinare e alla luce degli scambi di civiltà (politici, culturali, letterari) che si sono stabiliti fra i diversi poli nel corso del Cinque-Seicento. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali