Breve historia de Puebla

In this book 16 specialists in different fields of Cuban studies give intelligent answers to the outcomes of the Castro government during these past 50 years. It is the history of the Cuban Revolution in the areas of: politics, economics, religion, society, art, Bay of Pigs, international relations, labor relations, law, architecture, electrical energy and telecommunications, medicine and education. Authors included are: Eren Cordova, Jose Manuel Hernandez, Jorge A. Sanguinetty, Jorge F. Perez Lopez, Pablo F. Carreno, Manuel Cereijo, Alberto Sanchez Bustamante, Juan Clark, Virgilio Beato,...

At the juncture of an Excan Tlahltoloyan invasion to Cholula, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca engage in a violent war when disputing the love of goddess Victoria on the gladiatorial stone, who is manifested as the emissary and harbinger of the fifth sun destruction. Amid rituals and sacrifices, flowery warfare, and tzompantli, love blossoms and dies. The story is complemented by a chilling account of the Battle of Zacatecas and the Jerez fair, where Mexican traditions are illustrated and glorified.

The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

Tomo IV de Colombia en la Colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea El inicio del periodo de 1930-1960 está marcado por el fin de la "hegemonía conservadora" que da paso a quince años de gobiernos liberales. Las disensiones internas, sin embargo, hacen que pierdan la presidencia en 1946. Una etapa de lucha sectaria -la "violencia clásica"- desemboca primero en un corto gobierno militar y luego en el acuerdo entre los dos partidos para compartir el poder en el llamado Frente Nacional. La economía sufre los efectos de la crisis de 1930, aunque progresivamente se recupera con ...