La Florida; Su Conquista Y Colonización Por P. Menéndez de Avilés

Ten la valentía de atreverte con Dios. Prueba.No tengas miedo de él.Ten la valentía de arriesgar con la fe.Ten la valentía de arriesgar con la bondad.Ten la valentía de arriesgar con el corazón puro.Comprométete con Dios;y entonces verás que precisamente asítu vida se ensancha y se ilumina,y no resulta aburrida, sino llena de infinitas sorpresas,porque la bondad infinita de Diosno se agota jamás.Benedicto XVI

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

A punto de cumplir 90 años, Mauricio Rosencof decide revisar los cajones de su memoria para tejer el relato de su propia historia, aquella que lo llevó a emprender una gesta que marcó su vida y la de muchos otros. Un libro valiente, sincero y emotivo; imprescindible. Este libro representa una mirada particular y comprometida acerca del proceso que dio origen al movimiento revolucionario que irrumpió en el Uruguay durante la década de 1960. Rosencof escribe sobre lo que vivió; su mirada no aspira a la universalidad ni a las verdades objetivas. Desde los orígenes del MLN-Tupamaros, con...

Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its author's insights as a practicing historian. Examining concepts like impartiality, neutrality, contextualisation, and the use and abuse of the idea of the past as a foreign country, Bloxham's book investigates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were ...