The Spirit of Freedom

The author of "Blue Desert" meditates upon the emotional, spiritual, and political shambles of the late 1960s and early 1970s and upon the strength of the land, particularly the desert Southwest, and its ability to prevail despite modern efforts to exploi

Real stories about the secret plottings to kill Hitler and how they failed. Quite innovative in their historical perspective, this work not only reveals the secret of the conspiracy plot against Hitler, but allows a new and original reading of Nazism.

Hoy en día se alza en la ciudad de Santo Domingo una estatua en recuerdo de Antonio de Montesino, primer europeo que denunció con vehemencia los abusos y la explotación de los nativos en el contexto de la colonización española de las Antillas. Aunque su iniciativa no pudo impedir la temprana desaparición de los indígenas, habría de definir el pensamiento de Bartolomé de las Casas, allanando el camino para el surgimiento de la Leyenda Negra. A pesar de su histórica relevancia, los trabajos científicos que se han ocupado de la figura del fraile y de las circunstancias en las cuales...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...