La Puebla del Río

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...

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A través de entrevistas con protagonistas de todas las facciones envueltas y de investigar en archivos importantes, el historiador Enrique Ros, entrega su décimo libro sobre Cuba. En éste documenta los últimos momentos de la dictadura de Gerardo Machado, su derrocamiento en 1933 y los sucesos posteriores hasta la Constitución de 1940. De esta forma presenta el estudio más objetivo sobre estos momentos cruciales de la historia de Cuba. Con índice onomástico y fotografías de la época. Prólogo de Marcos A. Ramos.

La larga trayectoria historiográfica del profesor Paul Preston le acredita como el más relevante continuador de la fecunda tradición del hispanismo británico. El presente volumen quiere constituir un homenaje que completa el que se le rindiera con su nombramiento como doctor honoris causa de nuestra Universidad. En los textos aquí seleccionados se articula un enfoque coherente y, a la vez, complejo de la contemporaneidad española en su profunda imbricación con la historia del siglo XX europeo. Analizando dinámicas políticas y estructurales tanto como las vivencias y experiencias de...