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“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...

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Obra en la que un nutrido grupo de reconocidos medievalistas abordan, bajo la dirección de Le Goff y Schmitt, los temas fundamentales (del feudalismo a la naturaleza, pasando por el amor cortés, la secualidad o el pecado) para comprender la Edad Media en todos sus aspectos materiales, sociales o simbólicos.

En este libro fundamental y polémico, el historiador norteamericano Edmund Morgan se propone dilucidar una de las cuestiones centrales de la cultura política de los Estados Unidos: la relación entre la esclavitud, la libertad y el racismo. Pone así en evidencia los límites de la libertad en un país que nació a la vida independiente negándole ese derecho a gran parte de su población. En Esclavitud y libertad en los Estados Unidos, Morgan encuentra la génesis del problema en el pasado colonial de Virginia, la más antigua y rica colonia inglesa en América, donde el cultivo del tabaco ...