Venezuela y la contrarrevolución cubana

Montserrat Jiménez Sureda ha sido profesora de la Venice International University y, actualmente, es profesora titular de historia moderna en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Es autora de numerosos artículos especializados en revistas como Hereditas Monasteriorum, Memoria y Civilización, Hispania, Investigaciones Históricas, Cuadernos Dieciochistas, Memoria Ecclesiae, Manuscrits, Intus Legere, La Razón Histórica o Afers. Entre sus libros más recientes se cuentan Crist i la història. Els inicis de la historiografia eclesiàstica catalana en el seu context europeu; Les bruixes....

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

El presente atlas ofrece una nueva fórmula para comprender la historia española a través de su desarrollo político, social, económico, bélico y cultural. Las claves de ese desarrollo se encuentran en todo momento contrastadas con su marco geográfico gracias a un gran número de mapas a todo color, planos, diagramas y cuadros que hacen posible la fácil síntesis de los datos ordenados cronológicamente en el texto, desde el reinado de Felipe V a la monarquía de Juan Carlos I.