Tierra-Firme (Venezuela Y Colombia): Estudios Sobre Etnología E Historia

La palabra «cosaco» evoca imágenes muy distintas entre la gente. Para algunos, estos diestros jinetes de las estepas de Asia ?con cartucheras y gorros de piel, sables y espuelas? son una personificación romántica del valor y la osadía, de la libertad y el cristianismo militante. Para otros se trata de verdaderos jinetes del infierno: ora rebeldes depravados que hicieron tambalear la casa de los Romanov, ora instrumentos implacables de la expansión rusa y la represión zarista. La verdad no radica en un punto intermedio: por sorprendente que parezca, ambos extremos son ciertos. John Ure ...

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Reuni n de cuatro conferencias dictadas por el autor, en distintas universidades entre 1954 y 1955. Presenta en l neas muy generales, con el rigor del historiador y la pasi n del amante de nuestras civilizaciones precolombinas, una visi n integradora del pueblo maya desde sus or genes, que rescata la esencia de una tradici n cultural viva en el M xico de hoy.

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.