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Por que o Brasil não foi descoberto por acaso? Como uma nação pequena e pobre desfrutou de um século de supremacia marítima, descobrindo rotas e novas terras? A partir de cartas, documentos inéditos e testemunhos oculares, Roger Crowley conta a história da ascensão rápida e espantosa de Portugal ao poder. Considerado pelo jornal The New York Times um proeminente historiador da Europa dos séculos XV e XVI, Crowley revela que Portugal se valeu, principalmente, da ousadia e da habilidade de seus exploradores navegantes. A descoberta da rota para a Índia, a campanha de conquista...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

¿Dónde estaban los personajes de este libro el 19 de julio de 1979? Anastasio Somoza Debayle, el dictador; Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, el hijo; y Dinorah Sampson, la amante, se encontraban en altamar, en su lujoso yate rumbo a Las Bahamas debido a que el subsecretario de Estado, Warren Christopher anuló la invitación para que el derrocado presidente fijara su residencia en Estados Unidos.El capitán Justiniano Pérez, el guardia, estaba esa mañana en el aeropuerto Las Mercedes (hoy Augusto C. Sandino), en medio de una multitud histérica --guardias y somocistas-- esperando un vuelo...

La gran cantidad de estudios que circulan sobre las Cruzadas se explica no sólo por el interés que intrínsecamente despierta el tema, sino porque existe un vacío de análisis verdaderamente precisos, rigurosos, que configuren un panorama del verdadero debate histórico. Claude Cahen nos comparte en este libro sus ideas al respecto, recogiendo los problemas de uno y otro lado.