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Neste texto selecionado do livro "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", o historiador Moreira de Azevedo retrata a vitória brasileira na batalha de Monte Caseros, destacando a abertura da navegação no rio da Prata e os ajustes fronteiriços entre o Brasil e os Estados do Prata.

"Batendo orelha", de Simões Lopes Neto, é um conto compacto com ares de prosa poética, onde se intercalam as histórias de vida de um boi e de um homem. Já "Chasque do imperador", narrado pelo Cabo Blau Nunes, conta passagens de vida de Dom Pedro II ao tempo em que ele foi seu ordenança.

A batalha naval do Riachuelo está no foco deste texto selecionado do livro "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", do historiador Moreira de Azevedo. Ele narra aqui o famoso combate de junho de 1865 junto arroio Riachuelo, afluente do rio Paraná, na Argentina, que foi um verdadeiro marco da vitória brasileira na Guerra do Paraguai.

"Já passou o tempo em que ninguém se atrevia a entrar em um hospital de doidos, receoso de penetrar em enxovias, em gaiolas de ferro, onde eram encarcerados os míseros, como se fossem feras." Retrato humano sensível e detalhado, este texto de Moreira de Azevedo, sobre a fundação do primeiro centro especializado em doenças mentais do Brasil, que deu primeiro passo para a humanização no tratamento dos pacientes: "se ali muitos não recuperam a razão, de muitos são minorados os sofrimentos".

Dentre as batalhas da Guerra do Paraguai, a de Tuiuti é tida como a mais sangrenta. Nesse texto selecionado do livro "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", do historiador Moreira de Azevedo, o leitor toma conhecimento desse acontecimento que movimentou mais 55 mil homens no sudoeste do Paraguai, na região de Tuiuti, notória pelo terreno pantanoso, de difícil locomoção.

A Mexican-American podcaster and pawnshop owner goes back in time to try to stop the European invasion of the New World. This isn't some cutesy time-traveling story with skateboards and DeLoreans, but this story is what you might do if you knew it could be done. He's going locked and loaded!

American Imperialism is a short work in which Schurz denounced the Spanish-American war and the United States’ acquisition of the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. He considered the war as a battle of conquest which violated the intent and principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Schurz believed that imperialism should remain the province of despotic European governments. Together with the other leaders of the American Anti-Imperialist League, such as Andrew Carnegie and Mark Twain, Schurz insisted that imperialism was incompatible with democracy.

Oscar Wilde was always willing to express his opinions on a wide variety of subjects, including his own writings. The following selection of letters was prepared and edited by his executor Robert Ross, who is best known for expurgating and publishing Wilde's last major work, De Profundis.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's nonfiction book A Visit to Three Fronts. Written in 1916 during the peak of the First World War this book follows Mr Doyle as he visits first the British, Italian, and finally the French sectors of the front. He meets with everyone from the highest national generals to the lowliest of frontline troopers. Although a work that can be classified as mid-war propaganda, it does offer some very interesting insights into the British mind-set at this time of the war.

¿Por qué negamos el pasado andino de Lima? o ¿por qué seguimos creyendo que la bandera es producto del sueño de san Martin? son algunas preguntas que Fred Rohner responde en una serie de ensayos afilados y no carentes de humor.

Este audiolibro trata sobre las guerras bananeras que tuvieron lugar entre el final de la guerra hispano-estadounidense en 1898 y la Política de buena vecindad de Franklin Roosevelt en 1934. Podrá escuchar cómo y por qué los marines estadounidenses invadieron Panamá, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Haití, México y República Dominicana. También aprenderá sobre la ocupación en Cuba, Haití y República Dominicana.

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Origen, duración, extensión y población del Imperio Inca. Economía y estructura social. Logros de la ingeniería y de la ciencia inca. Machu Picchu. Final del Imperio Inca. Nuestra civilización actual es el fruto de un largo proceso de aprendizaje de miles de años. Descubrimiento del fuego. La agricultura: la rueda.La invención de la escritura. Historia:egipcios, fenicios, romanos, Edad Media... La Era Moderna.

In 1550-51, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, in the Valladolid Debate, attempted to settle the issue of whether or not Native Americans should have been enslaved, given sanction by the Pope. Both carefully argued their sides, las Casas stating emphatically, through his "Apología", that Native Americans were not all uncivilized and that only Canaanite tribes could be enslaved.

This book will take you on a journey through the past, discovering the secrets of the Maya that have been lost to time. Explore the culture and traditions that have shaped the history of the Maya.

¡La colección de no ficción preferida por las familias! Únete a nuestros intrépidos exploradores Otto y Cassandra y Missy, el ave más astuta del universo, y embárcate en una nueva aventura.

¡La colección de no ficción preferida por las familias! Únete a nuestros intrépidos exploradores Otto y Cassandra y Missy, el ave más astuta del universo, y embárcate en una nueva aventura. En esta ocasión, Cassandra, una niña de otro planeta, y Missy, la criatura más inteligente del universo, consiguen revertir el tiempo y llegar a la Antigua Roma. Allí conocerán cómo se fundó Roma, el funcionamiento de las instituciones, las costumbres de la época y por qué sus mitos y cultura han llegado hasta nuestros días.

Although he is unquestionably one of the most studied leaders of the 19th century, Simón Bolívar remains today as enigmatic as he was two centuries ago, when his vision and presence largely inspired the overthrow of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

The book contains the translation in English and the original Latin text of De Bello Africo and a background taken from the second book of De Bello Civili, by Gaius Julius Caesar, which helps understanding the historical story.

Central and South America were full of great civilizations. This book discusses five of the most famous: the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. These civilizations first showed up in Central and South America over 1,000 years ago, and some descendants of these tribes are still living in these regions today!