Empresarios e ingenieros en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí: la construcción de la presa San José, 1869-1903

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru--an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire--features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.

Biografía de la reina Isabel II (1830-1904), que heredó el trono a los tres años y comenzó a gobernar a los trece tras una cruenta guerra civil. A los dieciséis la casaron con un hombre al que odiaba y que no dejó nunca de intrigar contra ella. Tenía treinta y ocho años cuando fue destronada. La primera reina constitucional española ha pasado a la historia como una personalidad profundamente contradictoria. Cruel y generosa, ignorante y ladina, perversa e ingenua, sexualmente depravada y fanáticamente religiosa, incapaz de comprender ni de apreciar la cultura liberal. Su irregular...

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