Jalisco 1910-2010

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation, as men who decimated the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs ...

Las Guerras de Secesión yugoslavas de 1991-2001, tuvieron un papel histórico similar al de las Guerras Balcánicas de 1912-1913: anticiparon acontecimientos decisivos que pocos pudieron entrever durante su desarrollo. En plena euforia tras la victoria en la Guerra Fría y a lo largo de una década, las grandes potencias occidentales ensayaron allí estrategias y procedimientos que serían aplicados una y otra vez, llegando incluso a manifestarse en los conflictos de la Primavera Árabe, en 2011. Y también durante las Guerras de Secesión yugoslavas la Unión Europea inició una andadura...

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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...