El Almirantazgo y la Armada de los Países Bajos durante los reinados de Felipe I y Carlos V

Recoge: Un Antiguo Régimen prolongado: 1780-1850; Un capitalismo inacabado: 1849-1935; La crisis de la nación: del conflicto sobre los valores contemporáneos a su reconocimiento: 1936-1958; Democracia e integración europea: la 8a potencia económica mundial: 1959-1996.

Crash landing in San Sabestián, Spain in 1945, SS-Standartenführer Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (1906-1994) narrowly escaped death from his native Belgium and the Allied forces. Stripped of his Belgian citizenship and sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the German side of WWII, Degrelle lived the rest of his life in exile in Spain, harbored unofficially by Franco's government. During these forty-nine years in exile, Degrelle never expressed any regret for his place in the war, nor did he remain silent as fantastic narratives were woven about the events of the war and the...

El estudio de Juan Manuel Romero Gil sobre "El Boleo" de 1885 a 1954 está en la tradición de una nueva historia de la minería. Sin descuidar o ignorar la historia tradicional del descubrimiento y apertura de El Boleo, él examina por primera vez a profundidad muchas facetas interconectadas en la evolución de esa empresa: los mercados, la tecnología, el fínanciamiento internacional, los problemas de transportación, las actitudes gubernamentales, el reclutamiento obrero, las condiciones de vida, y las diversas fuerzas laborales que trabajaron en las casi insoportables condiciones de la...

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...