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"Vapor al norte, tren al sur," aborda un tema hasta ahora no considerado por la historiografia como lo es el estudio y explicacion de los viajes gubernamentales ocurridos en el Chile decimononico. Interpretados como una practica politica promovida desde el poder destinada a captar la adhesion y la simpatia popular, a traves de ellos se analizan los cambios producidos en el sistema politico chileno que, en la epoca de Balmaceda, hicieron posible novedosas formas de representacion del Presidente y la expansion de su base de apoyo, asi como tambien la dilatacion del espacio publico nacional y la ...

La Canción de Chun-hiang es una obra clásica de la literatura coreana, probablemente la más popular. Concebida originalmente como pansori (narración oral interpretada por un trovador) y de autor anónimo, sus primeras versiones parecen situarse en el siglo XVIII. Como el Romeo y Julieta de Shakespeare, la obra relata las relaciones amorosas entre dos jóvenes que deben superar las difíciles pruebas a las que les condenan sus diferentes orígenes sociales. A pesar del rígido sistema de valores confucianos que los separa, los jóvenes, contrario a la tragedia inglesa, podrán vencer las...

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Since the airplane's invention in 1903, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. Drawing widely from that massive group, journalist Paolo Matricardi has fashioned a fascinating history of this deadly weapon of war. This large-format book traces the military aircraft from the early days of the 1911 Italy-Turkey war, when the first bomb was dropped from an airplane, to today's computerized, high-tech models with precision-guided missiles and laser targeting. Author Matricardi discusses such intriguing models as Lockheed's A-12 Oxcart...