Plano de Madrid: 1880...

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Fidel Castro's account of how in 74 days of battle in the summer of 1958, 300 revolutionary fighters—with the support of workers and farmers across Cuba—defeated Batista's 10,000-strong “final offensive.” Introduction, maps, photos, facsimiles of historical documents, illustrated glossary of weapons.

Esta antologia poetica se centra tematicamente en la celebracion de la festividad del Corpus Christi en la ciudad de Toledo. Ya que el celebre rito ha inspirado una impresionante cantidad de poesia a lo largo de las edades, este volumen reune textos dispersos que abarcan mas de un milenio. Los versos de dicho subgenero compuestos en los siglos XVI y XVII tienden a ser devotos, teologicos o misticos. En tiempos mas recientes, la poesia -corpuscristica-, sin abandonar el matiz religioso, ha llegado a ser una celebracion en el inigualable festival eucaristico. Los autores representados en la...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one