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The Peninsular War
The Peninsular War has been extensively studied by British historians for decades, even centuries, but the Spanish contribution to the conflict, which was fundamental to the defeat of Napoleon’s armies, has been largely relegated to minor role. This book is an attempt to rebalance our understanding of the campaign in Iberia, written by a Spanish historian and translated into English for the first time. The book does not attempt to minimize the problems the Spanish experienced nor the catastrophic defeats suffered by the Spanish Army, but the reasons for these setbacks are viewed and analyzed from the Spanish viewpoint. With the finest elements of the Spanish Army serving with the French fo...
Pio Pico
Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years. Carlos Manuel Salomon breathes life into the story of Pico, who—despite his mestizo-black heritage—became one of the wealthiest men in California thanks to real estate holdings and who was the last major Californio political figure with economic clout. Salomon traces Pico’s complicated political rise during the Mexican era, leading a r...
Grupo TA.LI.UM.
Cuando la desaparición del libro físico sea inminente, las reliquias en los museos sean devoradas por el fuego censor y de la arqueología de la lectura no quede nada, yo atesoraré aún más esta “saga” de antologías del Grupo Ta.li.U.M., no por mi nombre como editor, sino porque el genio de la literatura le permitió a cada autor cuestionamientos y transformaciones de algunas realidades en ficción, desde ese ilusorio universo en sus mentes, con versos o tramas, para enfrentarse a un tiempo de injusticias, muerte y desinformación. Los doce trabajos poéticos dan cuenta de introspecciones recreadas en múltiples ámbitos de la cotidianidad; los veinte narrativos apuntan a secuencias...
