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This classic eighteenth-century work on the Golden Age of Piracy includes stories of Black Bart, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and many others.
How did we come to picture pirates donning peg legs, wearing eye patches, and burying treasure? This book, dating back to 1724, features biographies of the notorious buccaneers of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the history, stories, and legends that surround them. Published under the name Capt. Charles Johnson,...
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In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with...
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' — Abraham Lincoln Is the story of the United States that of George Washington, John Adams and Barack Obama? Or of slave rebel Nat Turner, of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Or Sitting Bull and Al Capone? Or Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and OJ Simpson? Of course, it is the story of all these, of both civil war and world...
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Compiled a century ago, when the wildness of the American West was still a living memory, these tales chronicle the rugged lives and audacious crimes of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other desperadoes. Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, the stories profile Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, the Dalton Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, and other legendary figures of the era. In...
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True tales of history's sea-faring scoundrels and their daring deeds, Buccaneers and Pirates recounts the legends of the notorious brigands who plundered North American coasts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Meet Blackbeard, who reveled in shooting down members of his own crew; Henry Morgan, the infamous pirate who eventually became Deputy-Governor of Jamaica; and Jean Lafitte, master of an enormously profitable piracy ring-even though...
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Este libro analiza la construcción simbólica del Estado-nación, uno de los temas más fascinantes de la historia de Colombia. Por lo tanto, aborda los procesos de memoria sobre la independencia y las disputas a lo largo de un siglo para producir un referente fundacional de la República.
Una de esas confrontaciones en el plano simbólico tuvo lugar en el primer siglo de vida republicana con la adopción de las fechas andinas 20 de julio y 7 de...
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A woman ahead of her time, Isabella Bird (1831–1904) ranks among the most adventurous travel writers of her era. In this captivating travelogue, she reports to her sister back home in England on a series of journeys through nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Bird recounts with passion and sensitivity such sights as wigwams on Prince Edward Island and Quebec's romantic falls of Lorette, in addition to dark encounters with cholera, slavery,...
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A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortly before his execution. Martin had cut a dashing figure as Captain Lightfoot, renowned for his courtly manners and his Robin Hood-like predilection for stealing only from well-to-do men. His tale of adventure and intrigue,...
10) Chiapas
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La historia del estado de Chiapas surge del fondo del tiempo y se encuentra enraizada en los mitos de la creación contenidos en los viejos libros de la sabiduría, como el Popol Vuh.
11) Los Mayas
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En la región que se extiende desde Chiapas hasta El Salvador, desde el litoral de Tabasco hasta Belice y Honduras, y en la península de Yucatán, los mayas construyeron una civilización brillante, que durante siglos alcanzó un gran nivel intelectual y cultural. Esta obra nos descubre esta civilización lejana y nos presenta: los orígenes de la cultura maya (la herencia olmeca...), el apogeo intelectual y cultural (astronomía, matemáticas,...
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¿Cómo escribir una historia que incluya a la gran mayoría de personas que vivieron en el pasado? Por medio siglo esta pregunta ha tenido una cierta urgencia, no sólo por razones historiográficas sino también porque la respuesta ha sido considerada central en los proyectos que buscan ganar la inclusión en la sociedad de grupos sociales previamente excluidos. En la década de 1960 la historia social creció rápidamente y tuvo bastante éxito...
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The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Since 1999, a number of documents relating to the CIA's activities in Guatemala have been declassified, and a truth and reconciliation process has unearthed other...
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En este texto se describen y analizan las circunstancias que provocaron el traslado del Real Hospital de San Lázaro del centro de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias a una isla cercana llamada Tierra Bomba, en el sitio conocido como Caño de Loro; las gestiones para el desplazamiento se inician en 1759 y terminan, más de treinta años después, en 1790. La reubicación se realizó en el marco de la política hospitalaria propuesta por el reformismo...
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La idea que nos ha sido legada de la independencia de Estados Unidos es la de una rebelión contenida, justa y sujeta a unos cauces ordenados, protagonizada por patriotas en defensa de sus nobles ideales frente a un imperio opresor que gozaba del monopolio de la violencia, un relato inspirador y estimulante que los fundadores hicieron todo lo posible por alimentar tras la guerra. Sin embargo, como el historiador Holger Hoock muestra en esta exhaustivamente...
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Bishop Charles P. McIlvaine was an important figure in nineteenth century America. As one of the leading evangelicals in the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Ohioan became the pivotal figure in the evangelical Episcopal-Anglican community. Famed as a preacher and speaker, his books and pamphlets were read by trans-Atlantic audience. His endeavors in the United Kingdom resulted in honorary degrees from Cambridge University and Oxford University. Aware...
18) Los Incas
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Los incas -fundadores de uno de los imperios más grandes de todos los tiempos, Tahuantinsuyu, que ocupaba un territorio de más de 4.000 km de longitud sobre la costa de Sudamérica y agrupaba a aproximadamente doce millones de habitantes- reinaron durante cientos de años antes de que su organización sucumbiera a principios del siglo xvi. La civilización inca fue excepcionalmente rica y brillante, llena de fervor espiritual en todos los instantes...
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Un proverbio aimara dice "Hay que mirar el futuro, viviendo el presente. Pero sin olvidar el pasado", una forma de pensar y de actuar de los pueblos uru, aimara y quechua que les ha permitido enfrentarse a las distintas formas de dominación impuestas en la región andina boliviana. A su vez, el concepto andino de Pachakuti, o revuelta del tiempo-espacio, ha infundido en la sociedad indígena el convencimiento de que se ha cumplido un ciclo y ha llegado...
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Read by presidents, scientists, and national heroes, the Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths. Filled with practical advice for everyone, the book contains everything from safety tips on swimming and instructions for putting up a tent to directions for making an aquarium and pointers on how to identify common North American trees. More than 200 figures and illustrations accompany valuable information on woodcrafting,...
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