"The Second War with England" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American author Joel Tyler Headley. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815. Content: Volume 1: Duplicity and oppressive acts of the British Government contrasted with the forbearance of the United States Debates in Cong ...
En los ultimos anos del siglo XX y los primeros del XXI, son cada vez mas los jovenes que cantan, interpretan y crean bambucos, pasillos, danzas y guabinas. Sin embargo, el publico amante de la musica de la region andina es adulto, y se aleja cada vez mas de los recintos en los que se cantan o se tocan las musicas andinas colombianas, al no ver reflejados en el escenario sus gustos y expectativas. Si la juventud no se interesa en conocer y escuc ...
La llamada «teoria de los dos demonios» surgio en los anos setenta, se hizo fuerte en los ochenta con el regreso de la democracia y fue cuestionada a partir de los noventa. Esbozada en el famoso prologo del Nunca mas, consistia en condenar las dos «violencias» que habian convulsionado a la Argentina, un mismo demonio con dos caras: la violencia insurgente y la estatal. En el siglo XXI, resurge la teoria de los dos demonios, pero en una version « ...
Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages were empty, and most people had gone. This cycle repeated itself from the mid-A.D. 1000s until 1280, when Puebloan farmers permanently abandoned t ...
Between 3500 and 500 bc, the social landscape of ancient Mesoamerica was completely transformed. At the beginning of this period, the mobile lifeways of a sparse population were oriented toward hunting and gathering. Three millennia later, protourban communities teemed with people. These essays by leading Mesoamerican archaeologists examine developments of the era as they unfolded in the Soconusco region along the Pacific coast of Mexico and Gua ...
Книга доктора психологических наук, профессора МГУ Ж.М. Глозман посвящена истории ее семьи.
Переписка родителей Ж.М. Глозман предвоенного и военного времени – многоплановый документ, вобравший в себя не только драматичные переживания людей, разлученных суровыми обстоятельствами, но и реалии того исторического периода. Публикацию писем сопровождает рассказ автора о семье и семейные фотографии.
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Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas, flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric ...
In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as <QUOTE>Uncle.<QUOTE><QUOTE> Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the a ...
