Breve historia de Carlos V

Desde el olvido al presente: la reedición del mítico libro que retrata el fin de la UP y la primera década de la dictadura regresa a librerías en dos ediciones especiales. Escrito entre 1982 y 1988, y publicado mientras el país vivía sus últimos días en dictadura, Chile: La memoria prohibida es la crónica más completa sobre el fin de la Unidad Popular y la primera década de la dictadura militar. Encabezada por Augusto Góngora, la investigación que hizo posible y dio vida a este libro, escrito por Rodrigo Atria, antecedió a la comisión Rettig, La Mesa de Diálogo o la Comisión...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

Biografía de Costa Rica es un libro de historia deliberadamente escrito para el lector común en el que se narran los hechos fundamentales de la historia costarricense (hasta el siglo XX). Fundamentado en autores de todas las épocas, aspira a no abrumar a los lectores con un excesivo aparato bibliográfico; al final de cada capítulo, sin embargo, aparecen las principales fuentes utilizadas.