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En 1629, affrété par des marchands hollandais, le Batavia file vers l'île de Java, avec à son bord plus de…
300 passagers, une riche cargaison et Jeronimus Cornelisz, homme ruiné et fou, comme officier. A quelques miles des côtes australiennes, le navire coule. Les rescapés vont se réunir sur des îlots où Jéronimus va provoquer une tuerie sans merci.Historia mínima de Colombia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Jorge Orlando Melo. 2019
"Colombia has been described as a legalistic and militaristic country, with a democratic and civilian tradition, but at the same…
time violent and repressive. An isolated country with a slow economic development, but with a successful economic policy that never fell into populist temptations. A weak State unable to occupy the entire territory, although controlled by an authoritarian and repressive oligarchy. A country with advanced social movements and guerrilla groups active for half a century, but with a strict liberal policy and an electorate without leftist temptations. Since 1930, the tension between liberals and conservatives, as well as the guerrilla uprising since 1958, led Colombia to high violence." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima del Perú (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Carlos Contreras. 2017
"Peruvian history has been divided into three major periods: the pre-Hispanic period, from the arrival of the first human beings…
to the fall of the Inca empire in 1532; the colonial or Spanish period, between 1532 and 1821; and the republican or independent period, between 1821 and the present. This proposal assumed the prevailing political organization as a classificatory axis. Thus we had, at the beginning, indigenous lordships that, on the eve of the European incursion, had taken on an imperial political form; a centralized government subject to the directives of a distant monarchic center, later, and, finally, an elected government, formally independent although constrained by commercial and political relations with other countries and organizations of the world. In this book on the history of Peru, this division is basically maintained, partly for practical reasons (it is the way in which the history of other countries of the world is also periodized and to which the readers are accustomed), and partly, also, because we believe that it is correct in assuming that the political organization of a nation has a determining force for the formation of the other aspects of the development of a society." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Uruguay (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Gerardo Caetano. 2020
"Uruguay's uniqueness has been a much debated topic in the history of Latin America. This small country, especially when viewed…
between Argentina and Brazil, has often been perceived as a laboratory of unique experiences. In the colonial centuries, the border between the Portuguese and Spanish empires gave this territory a frontier profile that found continuity in the long dispute between its giant neighbors during the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century. This book, with all the rigor of historical knowledge, explains the main tracks of the Uruguayan past based on a careful selection of processes, events and actors that unfold over almost five centuries. It is a synthesis as honest as it is debatable, built from a critical and plural perspective." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Venezuela (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Manuel Alberto Donís Ríos. 2019
"The republic that reached important material development levels and obvious democratic growth achievements is now going through a decline that…
has aroused the attention of the world. How did Venezuela reach this point of weakness? Why did its progress cease? This book offers interesting clues, after sharing the major events that have driven Venezuelan society since its origins. It focuses only on the crucial phenomena, on the most relevant clues, so that the reader can grasp the fundamentals of the chain of achievements and frustrations, of commotions and peaceful developments, which has determined the course of a national challenge that urgently needs to be addressed." -- Translation provided by NLSThe cradle king: the life of James VI and I, the first monarch of a United Great Britain
Par Alan Stewart. 2014
"As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods.…
Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed lover, David Riccio. By the time James was a one-year-old, Henry was murdered, possibly with the connivance of his mother, Mary was in exile in England and he was King of Scotland. By the age of five, he had experienced three different regents as the ancient dynasties of Scotland battled for power and made him a virtual prisoner in Stirling Castle. In fact, James did not set foot outside the confines of Stirling until he was eleven, when he took control of the country. But even with power in his hands, he would never feel safe. For the rest of his life, he could be caught up in bitter struggles between the warring political and religious factions who fought for control over his mind and body." -- Provided by publisherLooking for the enemy: Mullah Omar and the unknown Taliban
Par Bette Dam. 2021
"For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy…
that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less. Armed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar's whereabouts. The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, Looking for the Enemy is a woman journalist's epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world's most fragile states." -- Provided by publisherThe history of Venezuela (Greenwood histories of the modern nations)
Par Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova. 2018
"For decades, the economy of Venezuela has depended on petroleum. As a consequence of a reduction in the price of…
oil, Venezuela recently experienced an economic downturn resulting in rampant social spending, administrative corruption, and external economic forces that collectively led credit-rating agencies to declare in November 2017 that Venezuela was in default on its debt payments. How did this Latin American nation come to this point? The History of Venezuela explores Venezuela's history from its earliest times to the present day, demonstrating both the richness of Venezuela and its people and the complexity of its political, social, and economic problems. As with all titles in The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series, this chronological narrative examines political, economic, cultural, philosophical, and religious continuities in Venezuela's long and rich history, providing readers with a concise yet up-to-date study of the nation. The volume highlights the country's wide variety of cultures, languages, political ideologies, and historical figures and landmarks through maps, photographs, biographies, a timeline, and a bibliographical essay with suggestions for further reading." -- Provided by publisherEscape home: rebuilding a life after the anschluss
Par Charles Paterson. 2017
The story of a secular Jewish family uprooted by the Nazi occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia who flee Europe to…
reunite in post-war America to rebuild their lives. Based primarily on the memoir of modern architectural designer and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer), who was nine years old when the Nazi invasion reached Vienna, as well as newly uncovered documents and accounts of events found in letters between family members, the book is a riveting tale of discovery and coming to terms with a past that casts a long shadow. AdultLe Canada: une histoire populaire : des origines à la Confédération (Partir)
Par Don Gillmor. 2000
Un livre qui s'appuie sur les recherches nouvelles menées dans le cadre de la série télévisée du même nom, produite…
par la Société Radio-Canada. Il s'agit d'un récit racontant la vie des gens ordinaires faisant partie de l'histoire du Canada, avec plus de 200 illustrations en couleurs.Claytie and the lady: Ann Richards, gender, and politics in Texas
Par Sue Tolleson-Rinehart. 1994
A scholarly analysis of the impact of gender on the Ann Richards-Clayton Williams race for governor of Texas. The authors…
discuss the historical and cultural contexts of the contest. For adult readersÑamérica
Par Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSEl amanecer de todo: una nueva historia de la humanidad
Par David Graeber. 2022
"Two archaeologists explore reinterpretations of early societal development and reject the common understanding of early mankind as primitive and childlike.…
Drawing on new understanding and research, the authors theorize about what shape human society may have taken if not in bands of hunter-gatherers as long as previously assumed." -- Provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Bolivia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Herbert S Klein. 2019
"A comprehensive survey of Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes…
to the present, A Concise History of Bolivia highlights fundamental changes since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982 and its present day consequences. These changes include the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in the nation's history." -- GoodreadsHang on and fly: a post-war story of plane crash tragedies, heroism, and survival
Par Timothy W Lake. 2015
"Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival. Passenger planes are crashing three and…
four times a month in 1951 just as Americans are beginning to fly. Then, a loaded plane disappears in the night and can't be found. Panic and frustration reach all the way to the White House. Twenty-six are killed in the most spectacular crash that no one heard on a mountain frosted with snow and fog. Fourteen survivors are the largest group of plane crash victims to be lost and stranded in North America. The stewardess holds a baby in her arms until it dies. They huddle beneath a parachute tent, arguing over food and how to get out. One commits a dastardly criminal act upon the dead. When rescuers don't arrive after 40 hours, a hero passenger stumbles out of the snow-filled woods to find help from a farmer's wife with a secret deadly threat of her own. Distracted by blazing headlines, crash tourists, and a federal probe, simple farm families are intertwined with urban crash survivors leading up to more tragedy on the plane crash mountain. Hang on and Fly is a dramatic tale of the most incredible year of aviation disasters that made Americans plane crash jumpy. Passengers in rope seat belts are eaten by sharks; a pilot with heart disease flies into a hill; three crashes close a major airport; a lost pilot mistakes Lake Ontario for the Atlantic. It's the origin of our belief that we're safest in the back of the plane. It's the beginning of modern plane crash investigations, inspired Hollywood's airplane disaster movie genre, and caused safety regulations we all take for granted today. Journalist Tim Lake tells the gripping story of America's first budget airlines as only he can. His family was there." -- Provided by publisherFormidable: American women and the fight for equality: 1920-2020
Par Elisabeth Griffith. 2022
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number…
of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. They wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. Theirs was not only a women's movement. White women wanted to be equal to white men. They sought equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. There were also many white women who opposed any advance for any women. In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately-as white or Black topics-or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. Formidable provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America. After that landmark victory in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, "Now we can begin!" By 2020, a new generation knew how hard the fight for incremental change was; they would have to begin again. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers' fights to achieve equality for all." -- Provided by publisherTales from Sturgeon Creek
Par Dennis L Brewer. 1980
The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest
Par Charles C Alexander. 1995
The author argues that in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas the primary reason for the growth of the Klan in…
the 1920s was the emphasis on the moral status quo. He chronicles how the Klan's night-riding vigilantism, political activism, charitable work, and other activities appealed to a disillusioned, post-World War middle-class society. Contains some violence. For adult readersThis study of general stores offers a social and cultural history of a region where the South and West overlapped.…
The author has combined store ledgers from the 1870s and 1880s and found in them the experiences of thousands of people in Texas and Indian Territory. Particularly revealing are her insights into the everyday lives of women, immigrants, and ethnic and racial minorities, especially African Americans and American Indians. 2013. AdultLa Ciudad de México: una historia (Colección popular (Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico)) #566)
Par Serge Gruzinski. 2022
"The history of Mexico City is monumental, like Our Lady of Guadalupe that watches over the city. That's because time,…
people, and cultures have never stopped intermixing there. In the 1920s, as the first skyscrapers rose up, art, cinema and revolution rendezvoused in the city. Eisenstein discovered the land of Zapata and shared his passion in ¡Que viva México!. Trotsky took refuge in La Casa Azul where Frida Kahlo beguiled André Breton, and Graham Greene admired on the murales the rural teachers dressed in white with pious apostolic faces. For a long time artists, scientists, actors, and adventurers flocked to this American Venice where another world awaited them. The author tells the story of Mexico City in reverse, from the chaos of a global metropolis to the rise of the imperial Aztec city of Tenochtitlan." -- Amazon.com