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Michael Jacobs, nacido en Italia en 1952, es un escritor de viajes e historiador del arte inglés, afincado en el pueblo jienense de Frailes desde 1999. Actualmente es uno de los hispanistas más renombrados de su generación y ha sido tildado como "el George Borrow de la era de la alta velocidad". Es autor de libros de viajes y sobre arte y, además de este De la Alhambra a Tombuctú, su primer libro vertido al español, ha publicado sobre España Andalucia (Penguin Books, 1990), Between hopes and memories. A spanish journey (Picador, 1994) y The factory of light (John Murray, 2003),...

A general and comprehensive overview of the main stages or periods of Puerto Rico's monetary history. Beginning from pre-Columbian period, and covering the "situado" subsidy, the monetary crisis throughout the nineteenth century, and the different monetary systems implemented before and after US intervention in 1898, and their effects in our numismatic legacy: provisional paper money, cob coins, perforated and counterstamped coins (fleur-de-lys), foreign coinage, the provincial silver coinage of 1895-1896, plantation and merchant tokens, and official banknotes, among other. Full-color...

“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: “The Finest Hours of WWII". From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this book over...

En el periodo comprendido entre dos guerras mundiales, se describen las profundas mutaciones, económicas, sociales, institucionales y mentales, que han ido transformando nuestro mundo.