Orto y ocaso de Sevilla

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Aquesta és la biografia de l’home que va aterrir la cristiandat hispànica cap a l’any mil: Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, conegut com Almansor. El llibre tracta d’explicar com es va convertir en el veritable amo d’un califat omeia l’autoritat del qual s’estenia per al-Andalus i el Magrib occidental, per què va sembrar el terror entre els cristians i per quins motius va desaparèixer tan bruscament la dinastia que havia fundat. Per fer-ho, reviu les expedicions empreses en nom de la guerra santa i els problemes que van afectar Còrdova a l'inici del segle XI. Lluny de ser una simple...

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...

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