El Célebre Cubano

Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandalised society. In 1933 she took her sister Unity to Germany; soon both had met the new German leader, Adolf...

Title: Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas. Author: Vicente Filísola Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin...

La subida al trono de Isabel II supuso la iniciación de signos de avance, como la implantación del ferrocarril o la incipiente revolución industrial en algunos territorios. Siguiendo la estela de la Reina, la mujer relegada hasta entonces a la esfera privada, al cuidado del hogar y de los hijos, trasciende a la esfera pública iniciando una tímida incursión en el ámbito político, en el cultural y en el trabajo fabril. Este libro pretende analizar los claroscuros de la segunda mitad del XIX así, el acercamiento a los diversos aspectos históricos, económicos, sociales, políticos,...

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.