Canarias, territorio de exploraciones científicas. Proyecto Humboldt: expediciones científicas a Canarias en los siglos XVIII y XIX

El volumen hace alusion a las independencias iberoamericanas en el subtitulo porque son ellas las que marcan un hito en las visiones que las elites regionales lanzan sobre el pasado con vistas al futuro, pero en una operacion que busca cimentar su poder en el presente. Ellas, las guerras de independencia y los procesos inmediatos que les siguen, son el punto de partida de la "historia nacional" y la relacion de esa historia nueva con el pasado colonial sera en muchos casos, como sabemos, materia prima de la disputa entre liberales y conservadores. Se trata de "estabilizar" el pasado, de...

La construcción naval española tiene en el siglo XVII una época de referencia inexcusable. Este periodo, que resultará clave para explicar los problemas que se resolverán con el desarrollo de la Arquitectura Naval del siglo XVIII, coincide en su totalidad con la actividad constructora del astillero de Colindres, en Cantabria.

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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...