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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

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En este libro, Arnoldo Momigliano aborda el fenómeno histórico-cultural que tuvo lugar durante los siglos IV a I a. C., al entrar en profunda interacción cinco pueblos: griegos, romanos, judíos, celtas e iranos. El autor intenta dilucidar cuáles fueron y en qué condiciones se dieron las relaciones culturales entre estos pueblos y cómo ocurrió un hecho inusitado: la circulación internacional de las ideas.

A través de las páginas de este agudo ensayo histórico, Hilaire Belloc explica cómo la Iglesia católica, en las Edades Oscuras, ayudó a salvar Occidente, preservando lo mejor de la civilización griega y romana y cómo los europeos, todavía hoy, se benefician de instituciones sociales y formas políticas de indudable origen católico. El lector de Europa y la fe, a lomos de la colosal erudición y perspicacia de Hilaire Belloc, verá con nuevo fulgor los cuatro periodos clave de la historia europea: -Desde el paganismo a la Roma cristiana del Imperio. -Desde el Imperio Romano a las...