Historia de las relaciones internacionales

Historia de la "Batalla del Río de la Plata": el desembarco de la tripulación del Graf Spee, su hundimiento y el suicidio de su capitán, Hans Langsdorff, en el contexto argentino que va del golpe de Uriburu a la llegada del peronismo.

El Escorial is more than a monument to the zeal of Spain’s Catholicism; it is also a symbol of Spain at its imperial apogee. This imposing, granite edifice was built by King Philip II to celebrate Spain’s victory over the French at Saint-Quentin on August 10, 1557. Paid for with New-World gold, this sprawling monastery-palace is laid out in a vast grid of corridors and courtyards. At its heart is the austere Doric basilica of San Lorenzo el Real - beneath which are the remains of eleven Spanish kings, including Philip. The story of this fascinating, enduring symbol of Spain’s monarchy...

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

Los cinco autores de esta obra nos dan a conocer la historia del estado de Aguascalientes desde la epoca Chichimeca; la avanzada colonizadora del siglo XVI y la etapa colonial hasta el nacimiento del estado de Aguascalientes en 1857. El siglo XX relata el escenario de la Convencion de 1914, el estado cardenista y la guerra cristera.