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Las cartas sobre la mesa: Cuba aclara posiciones (Sociología y política)
Par Armando Hart Dávalos. 1984
Does Cuba respect human rights? Is democracy possible in Cuba with a one-party system? What about church and state in…
Cuba? These and many other questions were put to a high-ranking Cuban official during a 1983 interview in which he presents facts about Cuba in face of a chronically negative Western press. Spanish languageLa montaña rusa
Par Roberto G Fernández. 1985
The Cuban-American author presents a collection of fantastic, satirical, tragicomic, and sometimes grotesque narratives on life in Miami's Cuban community.…
Culture, politics, folklore, bilingualism, racism, and stereotyping are all targets of this kaleidoscopic examination of the Cuban-American experience. Strong language. Spanish languageEl encuentro (Cronito en la historia)
Par Sara Gerson. 1988
To make their history lesson more interesting, Rina and Ricardo call upon Cronito to take them back to visit the…
ancient Aztec civilization from the founding of Tenochtitlan to its conquest by Spaniards. For grades 2 to 6. Spanish languageLa agonía de América: indagaciones sobre el fracaso hispanoamericano (Tribuna de Plaza & Janes ;#90)
Par Carlos Alberto Montaner. 1989
Why can't Latin American countries achieve lasting prosperity and solid democracies? The Spanish author reviews the five-hundred- year history of…
Latin America and explains why poverty and authoritarian continue to reign instead of peace and wealth. Spanish languageHistoria de Mexico: de la epoca prehispanica a nuestros dias (A Panorama of Mexico Ser.)
Par Fernando Orozco L., Fernando L. Orozco. 1987
An objective history of Mexico from prehistoric times up to 1976. Covers the pre-Columbian civilizations, the Spanish Conquest, independence from…
Spain, the war with the U.S., the epoch of Juarez and the French intervention, the regime of Porfirio Diaz, and the Mexican Revolution. Spanish languageLa conquista del Perú
Par José Antonio del Busto Duthurburu. 1988
History of the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century. Covers the discovery…
of Peru, the arrival of Pizarro and Almagro, the military campaigns, the colonization, subsequent conquests of the other parts of the Inca Empire, and the discovery of the Amazon. Spanish languageEsplendor de la antigua Mixteca
Par Juan Arturo López Ramos. 1987
Presents the history and culture of a highly developed Indian civilization that for many centuries controlled a vast region of…
Southern Mexico. The Mexican author based his research on materials ranging from the oldest historical documents to the most recent archaeological findings. Spanish languagePancho Villa (Coleccion Occidente #2)
Par Pere Foix. 1980
Biography of the controversial figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1914, from his humble beginnings as a poverty-stricken peasant through…
his rise as a leader of the revolution to his mysterious assassination in 1923. Even today, Villa is both reviled as a cruel bandit on one hand and extolled as a fearless hero on the other. Spanish languagePsicologia del mexicano
Par Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero. 1982
A Mexican psychologist presents original studies into the personality of the Mexican people. He analyzes the motivations of the Mexican…
worker, interpersonal relationships, family structures, mental health of the Mexico City inhabitant, and the aspects in which the Mexican differs from the individual of other nations. Spanish languageIsabel y Essex (Palabra en el tiempo #155)
Par Lytton Strachey. 1984
Describes the romance between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex in the court of sixteenth-century England. Details their…
attraction for one another, their impassioned disagreements, and the final, tragic confrontation. Spanish languageDiez dias que conmovieron al mundo
Par John Reed. 1985
De la conquista a la independencia: tres siglos de historia cultural hispanoamericana
Par Mariano Picón-Salas. 1965
Tracing three centures of Latin American history in relation to cultural events, the author shows that European culture was not…
merely transplanted to the New World but that a new culture developed from a fusion of European and Indian ways. Spanish languageDesaparecido (Nueva fontana)
Par Thomas Hauser. 1982
Details the story of the disappearance and execution of American journalist Charles Horman in Chile, shortly after the overthrow of…
the Allende regime. Basis of the film "Missing" by Costa-Gavras. Spanish languageEl tiempo de Stalin: retrato de una tirania
Par Anton Antonov-Ovseenko. 1984
A Russian historian and survivor of Stalin's prisons and concentration camps relates the true history of the Russian dictator--his ascent…
to power, his private life, his brutal attack on the Russian peasants during collectivization, the reign of terror of the 1930s, the war with Germany, and his last years as a virtual god of the Soviet Union. Spanish languageMexico antiguo y moderno
Par Michel Chevalier. 1983
History of Mexico from Cortez to the first Mexican-American War in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1863 by a…
French politician, the history sets forth the justifications for European intervention in Mexico that helped bring about the ill-fated attempt by the French to establish an empire in Mexico. Spanish languageGuerra aerea en las Malvinas
Par Benigno Héctor Andrada. 1983
A former officer of the Argentine Air Force presents a history of the actions of the Argentine Air Force against…
the British surface fleet during the Falkland Islands War in April-June of 1982. He bases his history on the testimonies of the pilots involved, providing an objective and candid account of the successes and failures of the Argentines in the conflict. Spanish languageSiglos caoticos
Par Immanuel Velikovsky. 1983
The author of the controversial "Worlds in Collision" interprets ancient cultural and political history from the Exodus of the Jews…
to the reign of the Egyptian King Akhnaton. Although some critics have noted the author's tendency to mix fact and fancy, some found his works provocative reading. Spanish languageEl acorazado Bismarck: relato de un superviviente
Par Burkard Müllenheim-Rechberg. 1982
Story of the German battleship "Bismarck" which fought against the British fleet in the North Atlantic and was finally sunk…
with great loss of life. The author, who was an officer aboard the "Bismarck," was one of the few survivors. Spanish languageBolivar
Par Indalecio Liévano Aguirre. 1983
Conde Dracula: historia y leyenda de Vlad el Empalador (Cuadernos infimos ; 105)
Par Ralf-Peter Märtin. 1983
Historical account of the sinister Rumanian prince, Vlad Tepes, of the Middle Ages who fought against the invading Turks and…
whose cruelty inspired the legend of Count Dracula, the Vampire. Spanish language