LA PASIÓN DE SABER

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...

Un libro provocativo y riguroso que analiza la historia de Malvinas como una metáfora de la política, de la relación de la sociedad con la política y de los argentinos con el mundo.

Reales o legendarias, las historias que desfilan por las páginas de “Amores de leyenda” derribarán los mitos de cuánto hay escrito sobre algunos de los personajes más fascinantes de la historia, como la realidad sobre la existencia de los “amantes de Teruel”, o situaciones como la renuncia de Eduardo VIII a la corona británica. Otras les desconcertarán como la compleja relación entre Pierre Bergé e Yves Saint-Laurent. Y algunas incluso les decepcionarán, como la realidad de la mítica Sissi que no fue capaz de amar a un emperador que se declaraba “enamorado como un...

Calusas, timucuanos, guales, semnolas, creeks, were some of the tribes of Florida at the time when Pedro Menndez de Avils established there the settlement of San Agustn, the oldest city in the United States. Strong and ferocious warriors, who lived in almost permanent state of war and mutilated their enemies or made them slaves, offered a strong resistance to the Spanish who stepped on their territory. However, these, in exchange for many lives, hardships and suffering, managed to settle on their shores. That was the task in which the Asturian sailor insisted on starting in 1565, the...