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La Universidad del Valle presenta una parte del archivo que a lo largo de su vida recopiló Germán Guzmán Campos, pionero de la investigación sobre la violencia en Colombia. Los componentes de este acervo documental han sido digitalizados, analizados y clasificados por un grupo de profesores de la Universidad y del Colegio de Posgraduados (México), institución a la que estuvo vinculado como docente investigador en el Campus de Montecillo el Profesor...
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Nos hallamos ante un documento peculiar y no carente de una cierta controversia. Fray Alonso de Benavides escribió en 1630 un Memorial sobre la primera evangelización de Nuevo México, tras su experiencia como superior de sus misiones. El Memorial fue publicado ese mismo año y traducido a varios idiomas. Ante el éxito, Benavides trabajó en 1634 en un segundo Memorial, el que aquí presentamos.
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Get the Summary of Daniel Gordis's Saving Israel in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Saving Israel" examines the evolving relationship between young Jews and the state of Israel, highlighting a generational shift in attitudes. While older Jews view Israel's potential destruction as a personal tragedy, younger Jews, who grew up with Israel as an established reality, often struggle with its portrayal as an occupier...
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Berkshire Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include Hannah Carey, beaten to death by her husband at Warfield in 1851; young Hannah Gould, whose throat was cut by her father in a frenzied attack at Windsor in 1861; Nell Woodridge, murdered by her husband in 1896 and later immortalised in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Annie Davis, killed by her lover in 1912; and Minnie Freeman Lee,...
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Honour is a dying virtue. Here we look at what honour means. Not all warrior and conquerors were honourable but many unexpected people were. It traces the concept of honour, looks at some people who fought and died or lived for their beliefs and some who risked all but did not fight physically for them. It also looks at three very noble and honourable people a queen, a King and a warrior from three different countries in Europe over different time...
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"By far the best general book on its subject. . . . Moving Europeans will remain a standard reference for some time to come." –Charles Tilly
"Moch has reconceived the social history of Europe." -David Levine
Moving Europeans tells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic...
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Hidden behind the picturesque facade of country lanes and rugged coastlines, quaint villages and busy market towns, the South West counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset have witnessed some of the most shocking murder cases in British history. West Country Murders brings together over 30 cases from the authors' previous collections here in one volume. They include stories of those who killed for greed, jealousy and lust, as well as those who committed...
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A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single great contribution to mythology: the UFO.
Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a sceptical debunking of belief in 'flying saucers', How UFOs Conquered the World explores the origins of UFOs in the build-up to the First World War and how reports of them have changed in tandem with world events, science and culture. The book will also explore...
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Early parks evolved from deer parks nobles used for hunting. United States cities constructed huge landscaped graveyards, which people used for recreational purposes. Cities next created public parks based on the cemetery concept. The desire to preserve natural areas led the establishment of the National Park System. The book includes an extensive list of US state park systems.
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After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient.
The result was one of Britain's most successful propaganda campaigns – Dig for Victory – encouraging every man and woman to turn their garden, or even the grass verge in their street, over to cultivating...
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Excerpt: "While you are reading this sentence, an electronic computer is performing 3 million mathematical operations! Before you read this page, another computer could translate it and several others into a foreign language. Electronic "brains" are taking over chores that include the calculation of everything from automobile parking fees to zero hour for space missile launchings. Despite bitter winter weather, a recent conference on computers drew...
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About the Author G. Darrell Russell Jr. is a retired judge of the District Court of Maryland. He now practices law at a reduced pace in a small firm in eastern Baltimore County. He lives in Towson, Maryland. Three of his four adult children are nearby. His fourth child, Maureen, resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where she runs marathons like her dad. She obtained her graduate degree from South Alabama. Her brother Brendan also went to Alabama at the...
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This study sheds light on the dramatic military, political, and cultural forces that led Greece to liberation in the 19th century.
In The Greek War of Independence, Oxford scholar David Brewer presents a vividly detailed and comprehensive study of one of history's most heroic and bloody struggles for independence. This was the revolution of the Romantic Age, inspiring painters, poets, and patriots the world over, fired as much by Lord Byron's ringing...
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About the Book As the second part in The Journey series, Equality Is Just an Illusion continues to illuminate the historical reality of African Americans in the United States over the past two centuries, with an emphasis on the effects of whitewashing and the strategic cover-up of America's racist past. With the threat of banning Critical Race Theory and many culturally significant books in schools, the need to safeguard historical truth is more necessary...
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Orphans of the Holocaust tells the remarkable true story of Ottó Komoly, a Hungarian-Jewish engineer and Zionist leader who helped save thousands of Jewish lives during the Holocaust. As head of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, Komoly worked tirelessly to assist Polish and Slovakian Jews to escape and hide in Hungary. After German troops entered Hungary in March 1944, Komoly helped organize 'Department A' of the International Red Cross in Budapest....
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About the Author Douglas K. Sanders is a writer on history of Florida and Indiana.
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Excerpt: "Christopher Columbus was born at more places and to a greater extent than any other eminent man known to history. He was born at frequent intervals from 1436 to 1446, and at Cogoletto, Genoa, Finale, Oneglia, Savona, Padrello, and Boggiasco. Learned historians have conclusively shown that he was born at each one of the places, and each historian has had him born at a different date from that fixed upon by a rival historian. To doubt their...
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Set in seventeenth-century Japan, this historical novel follows the fortunes of a young samurai named Osaki Taro as he seeks to avenge his father's death and secure his place in the court of the powerful daimyo, Hosokawa Tadaoki. As Taro navigates the treacherous world of feudal politics and warfare, he must also confront his growing feelings for the daimyo's daughter, Lady Aoi.
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By 1966 the steam locomotive was entering its death throes: withdrawals were being carried out at a frenetic pace, with the slightest defect sending engines straight to the cutter's torch.
In an attempt to capture the British steam scene before it was no more, teenage enthusiast Keith Widdowson made it his mission to travel the length and breadth of the country to obtain runs behind as many locomotives as possible. Armed with a Southern Region season...
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