Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
El hilo invisible
None
Mercenaires, anarchistes et bandits en Révolution- Des étrangers sur la terre du Mexique (1910-1917)
L'histoire de la Révolution mexicaine se résume pour beaucoup à ses emblèmes, Pancho Villa et Emiliano Zapata, figures mythiques, mélanges de folklore et d'aventure. Pourtant, le conflit qui a secoué le pays entre 1910 et 1917 fera un million de morts, et préfigure par certains aspects la Première Guerre mondiale tant par les techniques employées que par le jeu des grandes puissances. Une révolution populaire qui se déroule aux portes des États-Unis, un voisin agressif, qui n'hésitera pas à intervenir : Pershing, Eisenhower ou MacArthur y feront leurs premières armes. Phénomène national, alimenté par les profondes divisions sociales et les antagonismes régionaux, la Révolution mexicaine n'ignore pas l'étranger : dans ce pays divers, vivent des dizaines de milliers d'immigrés de toutes origines (Américains, Chinois, Japonais, Français). Beaucoup sont liés à l'Europe, et notamment à la France. Mercenaires, diplomates, hommes d'affaires ou employés, mais aussi militants, anarchistes et bandits y jouent un rôle important, souvent méconnu. Situer ces étrangers dans le conflit, c'est revoir la Révolution mexicaine sous un nouvel angle, résolument mondial.
Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
About Trees
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
House documents
None
