El orden social y político en zonas de frontera del septentrión novohispano y mexicano, siglos XVI-XX

From the beginning of the Second World War the sea became a vitally important scene of conflict. Great Britain relied on receiving supplies by sea and, therefore, a total blockade of the United Kingdom was one the main objectives of Hitler’s Germany. The British government was forced to maintain a strategy of antisubmarine warfare throughout the conflict, while the Royal Navy sought to interrupt the Third Reich’s maritime traffic. In these circumstances the submarine became an important weapon of war. Headed by Karl Dönitz, who would later succeed Hitler as Head of State, the German...

La genialidad estratégica del general Simón Bolívar en los ámbitos político y militar, lo ubican como un líder, estratega y guerrero, dotado con extraordinarias virtudes, talentos y habilidades dignos de imitar. Transitar por la vida guerrera de Simón Bolívar, es entender el dramático cambio de la monarquía absolutista por la república democrática y liberal en apenas dos décadas de batallas militarers y luchas políticas, en un ambiente complejo. Esa es la obra cumbre del autodenominado hombre de las dificultades, considerado el ser humano mas grande que haya nacido en el...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.