Anatomía del Soldbuch

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

"Cada guerra conlleva la destrucción del espíritu humano" Henry Miller. La Humanidad no puede perder la Memoria Histórica, aunque algunos traten de ocultarla. Sobre esta base, un grupo de profesionales de la productora Pacific Media ha realizado un arduo trabajo de investigación que ha dado como fruto la serie: "LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL” Desde la claridad que produce una distancia de 75 años, con total libertad de expresión e independencia, LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL narra los hechos con la mayor objetividad, tal y como sucedieron. Desde el maléfico momento en que Hitler ordenó la...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...