Jalisco 1810-1910

A lo largo de siglos de guerras y conquistas, sólo unos pocos hombres se han convertido en guerreros legendarios gracias a su valor, su astucia, su ambición, su capacidad de liderazgo y su talento como estrategas. Sus gestas cambiaron el destino de pueblos enteros, derribaron y construyeron imperios, redibujaron los mapas, corrieron de boca en boca... En este apasionante libro el aclamado historiador Frank McLynn penetra en las mentes de seis de los más grandes líderes militares de la historia.

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DE LOS OLMECAS AL SIGLO XXI Kathryn S. Blair, autora de A la sombra del ángel y quien trabajaba en Estados Unidos para la oficina de Asuntos Latinoamericanos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hace un recorrido breve y claro sobre la historia de México, desde la cultura olmeca hasta la época contemporánea. Aborda la época prehispánica, la Nueva España, la guerra de Independencia, la guerra de Reforma, el Porfiriato, la Revolución, los gobiernos de Lázaro Cárdenas, Miguel Alemán, hasta llegar al sexenio de Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Con una pluma ligera, una investigación...

Excerpt from An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography History without Geography is incomplete and unsatisfactory. The duty of the historian is, not only to record the events of his narrative, with their causes and consequences, but to sketch the attending scenes and circumstances, so as to present a clear and living picture of tho whole. For this purpose Geography comes to the aid of History, to delineate the scenery of the historical narrative, to describe the city or country where the event recorded transpired, to depict the mountain, plain, or valley, the ocean, sea, or...