Pico en el aire

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When Friar Diego Bringas penned his 1796–97 report on conditions in northwestern New Spain, he was imbued with an enthusiastic drive for reform. Hoping to gain the King of Spain’s support in improving the missionary program, Bringas set down a detailed history of all that had happened in the region since Father Kino’s day. His writings offer a valuable study of Spanish attempts to bring about cultural change among the Piman Indians. Daniel S. Matson and Bernard L. Fontana have translated the Bringas document and added an informative introduction, notes, and references. They analyze...

En Un ejército al amanecer –que fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003- Rick Atkinson proporcionaba una historia dramática y autorizada del triunfo de los aliados en África del Norte. Ahora, en El día de la batalla, sigue a los reforzados ejércitos norteamericanos y británicos es su camino para invadir Sicilia en julio de 1943 y luego, milla tras milla de sangre, hacia el norte. El resultado de la campaña nunca fue cierto; de hecho, Roosevelt, Churchill y sus consejeros militares se enzarzaron en un acalorado debate sobre si esa invasión era una buena idea. Pero una vez en ...

M xico ha estado casi siempre presente en los informes presidenciales de Estados Unidos; con una frontera com n tan extensa, esa presencia es a n m s explicable. Las dos terceras partes del comercio exterior de M xico se efect an con el mercado estadunidense, los problemas migratorios y los derivados del narcotr fico, hacen que la relaci n entre estas dos naciones sea cada d a m s din mica y dif cil. Lo anterior lo podemos constatar en este volumen.