Argentina, 1976

Published on the occasion of the transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama, the book summarizes, with concise texts and beautiful photographs, the Canal's history, operation, maintenance and improvement, as well as the beauty and fragility of its watershed.

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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

La historia comparada de los procesos de construcción nacional británico, francés, español y portugués durante la era de las revoluciones construida a partir de un corpus de relatos de vida, constituye una óptica novedosa. Aunque las fuentes autobiográficas utilizan la palabra «nación» y sus términos asociados con diferentes sentidos, se pueden inferir una serie de patrones comunes de significado en los lenguajes nacionales empleados antes, durante y después de la revolución liberal. Asimismo, se aborda la relación entre la diversidad cultural territorializada y los conflictos...