Esplendores y miserias de la evangelizacion de America

Considerado por unos un cruel asesino, un tirano de puño de hierro, y por otros uno de los mayores estadistas de la historia, sólo hay una cosa clara sobre Gengis Kan: gobernó el mayor imperio de la historia. Entre la biografía y la hisitoria del imperio mongol, Breve historia de Gengis Kan nos presenta la vida de este caudillo nómada que construyó un imperio que se extendía desde Europa hasta Japón. Desde una perspectiva objetiva basada en la aportación de datos rigurosos, el autor nos detalla la vida del emperador mongol: su difícil infancia como huérfano, su ascenso en la...

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

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