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Reflexiones académicas sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, en particular, en lo referente a su vinculación con el Perú. Al cumplirse cien años del inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, junto a su Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (IDEI), han creído conveniente llevar adelante una publicación colectiva destinada a reflexionar, desde una perspectiva académica, sobre esta conflagración global, en particular, en lo referente a su vinculación con el Perú. La revisión de sus páginas será de gran utilidad para especialistas y para el...

Describes the failure of Washington's war on drugs and the dangers of world wide economic dependency on the monetary gains of drug traffic.

In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach--across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change--a time when Spain learned to rule the world. It was also a time of great turbulence and transition, which fueled an exceptional flourishing of art and ...

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.