Cruzadas/ Cruzades

Este libro, que presenta los relatos que nos han legado los protagonistas de las expediciones junto con imágenes originales, arroja luz sobre la identidad de aquellos hombres y mujeres, su modo de proceder y, ante todo, las maravillas que encontraron a su paso. Constituyen un grupo heterogéneo de científicos, navegantes ambiciosos, viajeros solitarios o grandes aventureros que, a pesar de sus diferencias en lo que respecta a sus orígenes o formación, tienen un rasgo en común: nos han legado un vívido retrato de lo desconocido. En estas páginas aparecen personajes como Alexander von...

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El gigante inquieto nos cuenta la historia de los Estados Unidos en los tiempos, cambiantes y revueltos, que van de la caída de Nixon, en 1974, a la presidencia de G.W. Bush en 2001. Patterson no sólo nos habla aquí de los grandes hitos de la política internacional –el fin de la guerra fría, la revolución iraní, Bosnia, la Guerra del Golfo...- y de las figuras dominantes de la época, como Reagan o Clinton, sino que presta una atención especial, y en esto reside uno de sus rasgos más innovadores y atractivos, a la evolución interior de la sociedad norteamericana: a fenómenos de...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...