Cartas al Cielo

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal...

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Este ensayo se acerca al día a día de las primeras damas y reinas consortes. Del estudio se infiere una muy diversa ejecución del puesto: en ocasiones, limitada a un ejercicio discreto de acompañamiento al jefe del Estado en actos protocolares, y otras, partícipe, más o menos entusiasta, en actividades —generalmente— de carácter social y cultural. El trabajo comienza con un estudio del estatus de la reina consorte que desvela la ininterrumpida preterición y apartamiento de la mujer en el proceso sucesorio durante los dos últimos siglos de historia de España. Emprende a...

«Mi suerte es haber conocido a tantas personas fascinantes». Coco Chanel, Gracia de Mónaco, Balenciaga, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Chillida, Armani, Valentino, Dalí, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, Moschino, Ralph Lauren, Kate Moss... Covadonga O'Shea trae a estas páginas unas memorias pobladas por personajes que forman parte de la historia reciente del arte, la moda y la política. Un recorrido por un universo exclusivo del que ella también ha sido protagonista. Por eso esta no es una biografía al uso, sino un cúmulo de experiencias únicas y de viajes glamurosos, de anécdotas...