WORKS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Una perspicaz reconstrucción de la descolonización de Indonesia, un proceso de alcance e interés mundial. Durante mucho tiempo se ha considerado que la lucha por la independencia de Indonesia, cuyo punto álgido se situó en la década de 1940, fue un conflicto aislado entre la potencia colonial, los Países Bajos, y las colonizadas Indias Orientales Holandesas. El relato que hay detrás es, sin embargo, un impresionante reflejo de la historia mundial. Indonesia fue el primer país en declarar su independencia tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial -pese a la oposición de las tropas británicas,...

Mapoteca Colombiana: Coleccion de los T?tulos de Todos los Mapas, Planos, Vistas, etc. Relativos ? la Am?rica Espa?ola, Brasil ? Islas Adyacentes.