El Tabaco: Su Cultivo, Producción Y Comercio...

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A ten volume, 9,000 page account of 12 years of happenings in Nicaragua coinciding with insurrection & the revolutionary years (1978-1990). Its purpose is to furnish a documental tool collection equivalent to attending a well equipped library or specialized documentation center. Looking up the different angles & perspectives of this geo-political phenomenon, you may formulate your own analytical criteria on the subject. History is always relevant. "It is a condition of resurgence. It possesses the virtue of experience. It frees us from what was, because the past is 'revenant.' If it is not...

La publicación de El moderno sistema mundial supuso el comienzo de una verdadera revolución en la historiografía y un fuerte impulso al renacimiento de la sociología histórica. Más allá de las discrepancias y las polémicas a las que ha dado origen, esta obra es ya un clásico que constituye un ambicioso intento de reconstruir la historia de la actual sociedad capitalista partiendo de una perspectiva global. Su argumento central es que el moderno sistema mundial toma la forma de una economía-mundo capitalista, que tuvo su génesis en Europa en el siglo XVI e implicó la...

En septiembre de 1944 las tropas aliadas avanzaban por Holanda y se disponían a cruzar el Rin para invadir Alemania; pero el desastre de Arnhem, la última victoria alemana, iba a alargar el conflicto más allá de lo previsto. Basándose en una amplísima documentación, que se utiliza aquí por primera vez, incluyendo diarios y testimonios personales, Antony Beevor desvela la verdad acerca de aquel acontecimiento, en que se mezclaron los errores y la arrogancia de los mandos, el heroísmo de los soldados y los sufrimientos de la población civil. Un libro que Jay Elwes califica como "otra...

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...