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Sirviéndose, como línea argumental, de la historia de los caballos de raza lipizana, Frank Westerman recorre la historia contemporánea de la Europa del siglo XX en este brillante y original ensayo, que se lee como una novela. Siguiendo el árbol genealógico y las vicisitudes de las yeguadas imperiales, el autor-narrador reconstruye la historia de cuatro generaciones de purasangres y de cómo consiguieron sobrevivir a las guerras napoleónicas, la caída del Imperio austrohúngaro, las dos guerras mundiales, los delirantes experimentos para mejorar las razas proyectados por Hitler, Stalin...

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Include among the articles are "Down from Colonialism: Mexico's Nineteenth-Century Crisis", Jaime E. Rodriguez O., "Los liberales y la iglesia", Patricia Galeana de Valades; "El pensamiento de los conservadores mexicanos", Maria del Refugio Gonzalez; and "Patriarchy and the Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest", Richard Griswold del Castillo. Also includes a bibliography and an index.