Soldados de Fortuna

A vision of the main empires that have occurred in history, from Egypt to the United States of America. A multitude of maps and illustrations that will help us understand Byzantium, the Chinese and Mongolian empires, the different caliphates, the pre-Columbian empires of America, the Spanish Empire, and more.

American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has continued to inspire America's most influential activists for decades. Now available for the first time in a Spanish translation, this radical critique of the modern 'civilized" lifestyle is more vital than ever before. El libro del pensador nativo americano Jack Forbes, Colon y otros caníbales, era uno de...

Sólo Pierre Goubert podía haber producido una síntesis de la jerarquía de la presente sobre el “Ancient Regima” francés. Su tesis de doctorado sobre Beauvais et le Beauvaisis de 1600 à 1730, contribución a la historia de Francia del siglo XVII (París, 1960), que lo ha colocado entre los grandes historiadores franceses actuales, ha permitido, a través del minucioso y completísimo estudio monográfico-regional que representa, comprender las grandes líneas tendenciales del “gran siglo francés”. A sus propias investigaciones ha sumado, en el presente libro, la de otros...

Un viaje atravez de la historia de México al lado de una familia de anejo abolengo donde uno de los integrantes de esta familia nos sirve de guia, de moderador y nos introduce en una aventura donde conoceremos relatos de momentos importantes en la vida de sus parientes y algunos personajes de la historia Mexicana.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...