Geografías e historias (1945-1975)

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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

Manuel Fernández Álvarez nos acerca en esta obra a la figura de Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, más conocido en la Historia como el Gran Duque de Alba. Sus avatares, sus sentimientos, sus aciertos y desaciertos al servicio de dos monarcas que marcaron nuestra historia, Carlos V y Felipe II. Un contexto privilegiado, la España imperial del siglo XVI, en el que Alba desempeña uno de los principales y más controvertidos papeles de la época.

American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has continued to inspire America's most influential activists for decades. Now available for the first time in a Spanish translation, this radical critique of the modern 'civilized" lifestyle is more vital than ever before. El libro del pensador nativo americano Jack Forbes, Colon y otros caníbales, era uno de...