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William D. Pawley
The amazing true story of a businessman-adventurer who changed the world
The Chemical Promise
There are some who would question the need to republish papers that have already appeared elsewhere. Walter Pauel once said that scholars should think in terms of books rather than research papers since the latter become lost in the literature. When he told me this year ago I was not entirely convinced. Surely the young scholar must publish papers to secure his academic position. In addition, throughout his career he attends conferences many of which will require the publication of his papers in the resultant conference volumes. By their very nature such papers often discuss topics in greater detail than that scholar's subsequent books. In this case also the papers tend to become "lost" even when there exit extensive guides to the literature such as the Critical Bibliography published annually in Isis for historians of science. Many of my own papers over the past forty-five years have indeed appeared in such conference volumes as in journals.
From Hitler to Trujillo
From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his family found themselves imprisoned by the European Allies because they were Austrian-German enemies. Then he was imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for ...
La visión del Nuevo Reino de Granada en las cortes de Cádiz (1810-1813)
El 24 de Septiembre de 1810 se instalaron formalmente las Cortes generales y extraordinarias de la Nación Española en la real isla de León. Los diputados de las provincias de la península y América se diferenciaban en propietarios, elegidos directamente por los cuerpos que representaban a los pueblos de las provincias convocadas, y suplentes, seleccionados por el Consejo de Regencia para remediar la ausencia de los propietarios que imponían tanto la distancia como el breve tiempo disponible para la reunión de las Cortes.
