Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Maps the influence of America's Hispanic past, from the explorers and conquistadors who helped colonize Puerto Rico and Florida, to the missionaries and rancheros who settled in California and the 20th-century resurgence in major cities like Chicago and Miami.
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Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea. In clear, lucid prose, this little book takes on an enormous subject and makes it understandable...
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¿Por qué la cultura humana cambia tanto de un país a otro, y por qué evoluciona a un ritmo frenético? ¿Se puede cambiar y evolucionar sin límite? Felipe Fernández-Armesto, uno de los historiadores más prestigiosos del mundo, se plantea los grandes porqués del ser humano, ese curioso "animal imaginativo". Un ensayo extraordinario para pensar en el siglo xxi: mezcla de antropología, filosofía, historia de las ideas y política, siempre bajo...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire tells the story of the Roman Empire from the time of Trajan in the third century to the fall of Constantinople in the sixteenth. Along the way Gibbon describes not only the internal issues that arise within the empire, but also the various outside forces that contribute to its fall: the Goths, Huns, Persians, Muslims, and many others. He also has two highly controversial (at the time, and still...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to a single fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major religions and civilizations divided the world, and the increasing interconnectedness of separate economies that we now call globalization.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto remonta elementos fundamentales del mundo moderno atrás a un año profético solo. Todo...