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La Crónica del Perú, de Cieza, escrita entre 1541 y 1551, compendia noticias de la historia natural y geográfica de una amplia zona indiana, especialmente del Perú, haciendo hincapié en las grandes posibilidades agricolas y economicas o mercantiles de la tierra, e indagando en la historia moral de los indios, describiendo la organizacion de las poblaciones, estructura de las viviendas, vestimentas, ceremonias religiosas y fiestas profanas, costumbres y practicas de guerra... Cieza se propone, ademas, guardar memoria de la historia para el porvenir en el marco de una perspectiva providencialista y de la evangelizacion de la empresa conquistadora, abordando tambien las sombras de una empresa que se configura como ejemplo para el porvenir y cuyas responsabilidades deben ser asumidas. Cronica fundamental, obra de un testigo y protagonista de algunos de los hechos mas relevantes que narra, y en su conjunto optimista, aunque critique las malas actuaciones de los españoles, con aguda atencion a los problemas y obstaculos del camino que se abre en el Nuevo Mundo.

El Archivo Simón Ruiz, crucial para entender la actividad económica y financiera a mediados del siglo XVI, alberga la correspondencia entre el que fuera corregidor de Medina del Campo y uno de los hombres de negocios mas importantes en la epoca de Felipe II, y la familia Gomes de Elvas. Los inicios comerciales de esta familia se gestaron en la ciudad fronteriza que da nombre a su linaje. Las fuentes documentales consultadas en esta localidad y las cartas remitidas a Medina del Campo permiten reconstruir el camino que condujo a los Gomes de Elvas a convertirse en una de las casas de negocios mas importantes de Portugal.Este libro va mas alla de una perspectiva meramente economica y ahonda en los estudios de familia y empresa, analizando el comportamiento de la familia Gomes de Elvas y sus estrategias empresariales, un camino que no solo los condujo al exito economico, sino tambien al ennoblecimiento de varios de sus miembros. Este hito es especialmente relevante, pues su exito se consumo con la obtencion de un prestigioso oficio, como es el de correo mayor, que se transformara en un cargo hereditario con el que asegurar el estatus economico y su influencia social a lo largo de diversas generaciones.

Alfred Landeckers life illustrates the fate of the vast majority of Jewish people in 20th century Germany at the time.From rural eastern Prussia to an industrial city in Germanys southeast: shortly before the start of the First World War, Alfred Landecker decided to make a considerable leap. Raised in a large Jewish family in the town of Nordenburg, as a young man Alfred left the area for Mannheim. After years on the Western Front, he worked as a business representative in a machine factory, became acquainted with his future Catholic wife Maria Gener, and started a family. In 1928, Maria died. Subsequent Nazi persecution from 1933 would place Alfred and his three children designated half Jews through the Nuremberg Laws in a hopeless situation. In 1942, Landecker was deported to the east and murdered. Times change, and with the times, people change as well he had written four years earlier in a letter to his daughter. This biography describes how changed times intruded into Alfred Landeckers life and destroyed it.

PREFÁCIO: A CONVERGÊNCIA DO CÓDIGO ANCESTRAL E A INTELIGÊNCIA DO FUTURO Em um mundo que se acelera sob o ritmo frenético da inovação tecnológica, onde algoritmos governam nossos feeds e inteligências

O documento explora a divinação e a adivinhação, destacando suas diferenças: a divinação, como no Ifá, é uma prática ritualística que conecta humanos às divindades e ancestrais usando instrumentos sa

Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been happy to indulge in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of course, it was happening almost a century ago.Meet Maundy Gregory, actor, journalist, publishing proprietor, conman, embezzler, MI5 spy - and the man you went to see if you had the money to pay for a peerage in the post-First World War years.Cutting a dash across high society of the 1920s - he was in attendance at the wedding of the future George VI - the immaculately oiled and overdressed Gregory would happily pockets thousands for playing Mr Fixit for wannabe knights and lords, and swell the coffers of Lloyd Georges Liberal Party to millions of pounds.Business was brisk, and business was brazen. Visitors to his lavish office on Parliament Street, with a direct line to Number 10, would be wined and dined and, after paying up, leave satisfied that they would be next on the list for a knighthood or barony. Nothing could be guaranteed, of course, and it was a strictly no refunds business.But Gregory was also suspected of being something else, to add to his impressive list of accomplishments: a murderer. As the political winds changed, the debts mounted up and the walls closed in around him, he somehow managed to inherit his mistresss not inconsiderable savings when she scribbled a new will on the back of a menu and was suddenly taken ill ...In The Man Who Sold Honours, Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the truth about this long-forgotten character who remains the only person ever to be successfully prosecuted under the sale of honours act of 1925. A powerful preview of the scandals to come in Britain in recent years, this is the story of the original honours tout - a riches-to-rags tale of greed, corruption and murder in the interwar years.

She was the great-grandmother of Europe. Her descendants sit on thrones across the continent to this day. But Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was all but written out of history.Fascinating, rigorously researched and vividly told...[a] groundbreaking biography. - Dr Anna WhitelockAn invaluable study of the little-known Princess without whom the course of British and European history would have been so very different. Robert HardmanIn 1846, the eyes of the British royal family fall on the small village of Pfeffelbach in western Germany. It is here, in a church that is crumbling before them, that the mother of Prince Albert, Queen Victorias husband, was laid to rest and forgotten about. And it is time to bring her home.Married off at 16 to the 33-year-old Duke Ernst Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Louise bore two sons, Ernst and Albert, but her unhappy marriage led to her banishment, divorce, and loss of her children. She died alone at just 31, her reputation destroyed by court gossip and political intrigue. Was she a fallen woman, or a victim of royal machinations? And was Prince Albert truly Ernsts son?Princess Louise played a crucial role in the rise of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but while her son Albert entered history, she was removed from it. Based on a decade of original research, A Royal Outcast is the first English-language biography to explore the life and legacy of Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg the woman the royal family tried to bury to save Prince Alberts reputation.

Dice el mito que Japón nació por voluntad divina de una lanza sumergida en el océano: los terrones de sal que gotearon de su punta al ser extraída formaron la primera isla. Son fragmentos que mantienen su individualidad al mismo tiempo que forman parte de un todo mas complejo. El recorrido de este atlas, que va desde la nevada Hokkaido hasta la tropical Okinawa, esta hecho de verdad y narracion: las islas son verdaderas historia, naturaleza, geografia, cultura, su exploracion es narrativa.Las evocadoras ilustraciones de Uragami Kazuhisa impregnan nuestra mirada con el inmenso encanto japones.

¿SIGUE SIENDO JAPÓN UNA POTENCIA INNOVADORA? ¿SUS TRADICIONES FRENAN SU DESARROLLO SOCIAL? ¿SU RELACIÓN CON CHINA ESTÁ CONDENADA AL CONFLICTO? ¿PUEDE SER UN ACTOR IMPORTANTE EN EL ESCENARIO INTERNACIONAL? ¿SON SOLIDAS SUS RELACIONES CON ESTADOS UNIDOS?TRAS DOMINAR EL PANORAMA ECONOMICO MUNDIAL A FINALES DEL SIGLO XX, TOKIO SE ENFRENTA A MULTIPLES DESAFIOS: BLOQUEOS POLITICOS, ESTANCAMIENTO, ENVEJECIMIENTO, CONDICIONES DESFAVORABLES PARA LAS MUJERES Y UNA SENSACION DE AISLAMIENTO. SIN EMBARGO, EL PAIS CONSERVA UNA EFICIENCIA Y UNA RESILIENCIA EXCEPCIONALES, Y AFIRMA SUS VALORES FRENTE A UNA CHINA QUE CRECE DE MANERA INQUIETANTE.

For centuries, Rome ruled vast territories with unmatched military discipline, administrative rigor, and cultural influence. Yet by the 5th century, the empire that once seemed unstoppable fractured under pressure from within and without. Twilight of the Eternal City presents a research-driven, expert-level examination of the true causes behind the fall of the Roman Empirefar beyond simplified tales of "barbarians at the gates."This analytical narrative dissects the intertwined political, economic, military, and social dynamics that eroded stability across centuries. Through primary-source evaluations, archaeological findings, demographic studies, and modern historiographical debates, the book illuminates how corruption, overexpansion, civil conflict, shifting trade networks, climate stress, and foreign incursions collectively pushed Rome past its breaking point.Crafted for professionals and serious scholars, the text emphasizes evidence, complexity, and competing interpretations rather than easy conclusions. Each chapter offers clear, research-oriented insights into how systemic decay operates within large stateslessons that continue to resonate in discussions of geopolitical decline today. Step into the final chapters of an empire and uncover how a civilization that reshaped the world ultimately collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.

"Bernardo não apresenta só os fatos; ele também fornece uma interpretação crítica sobre tudo aquilo que vê e cujo sentido convida o próprio leitor a refletir. Uma vez reunidas, suas colunas ganham am

At the dawn of the 19th century, two menMeriwether Lewis and William Clarkwere tasked with uncovering the mysteries of a vast and unfamiliar continent. Across the Uncharted Continent offers an educational, expert-level exploration of the famed expedition that reshaped Americas understanding of its newly acquired lands.Designed for professionals, scholars, and serious enthusiasts, this narrative digs deeply into the scientific, military, and diplomatic dimensions of the Corps of Discovery. Readers will uncover how the expedition meticulously recorded flora and fauna previously unknown to Western science, built alliances with Indigenous nations, mapped river systems, assessed trade routes, and evaluated the geopolitical forces influencing the region.Rather than simply retelling adventure episodes, the book highlights the structure, methodology, and analytical approaches behind one of historys most significant exploratory missions. Through journals, cartographic evidence, and modern research, it illuminates how logistical planning, cross-cultural negotiation, environmental observation, and disciplined record-keeping transformed a risky journey into an achievement that informed national policy for decades.Clear, authoritative, and rich with insight, this account captures the expedition not only as a trek across wildernessbut as a blueprint for scientific exploration in an era of expanding horizons.

Before the railroad, before the barbed-wire fence, and before the frontier fully closed, there existed a brief but transformative period dominated by a profession both revered and reviled: the buffalo hunter. Thunder on the Open Plains provides experts and professionals with a deeply technical, methodical exploration of the hunters who altered the ecology, economy, and culture of the American West.This book examines the precision rifles, shooting techniques, hides-processing systems, transportation logistics, and commercial networks that powered the buffalo trade at its peak. Drawing from journals, military accounts, trade documents, and modern wildlife studies, it reconstructs how hunters operated across vast prairiesselecting vantage points, calculating wind and distance, and using specialized equipment designed for extremely long-range shooting.Beyond the mechanics, the narrative analyzes the environmental consequences, Indigenous resistance, market fluctuations, and government policies that accelerated the collapse of the great bison herds. Each chapter offers clear, technical insights into how an industry rising rapidly on profit and exploitation collapsed just as quickly under its own pressure.Designed for readers seeking depth and accuracy, this study illuminates a frontier era defined by skill, ambition, and irreversible transformation.

For centuries, the Bedouin have navigated some of the harshest landscapes on Earth with remarkable adaptability, social harmony, and cultural resilience. Echoes of the Desert Wind offers teachers a structured, technical exploration of Bedouin traditionsunpacking the systems, customs, and environmental knowledge that sustained nomadic life across Arabia, the Levant, and North Africa.This detailed account examines the logistical realities of desert navigation, camel husbandry, water sourcing, tent construction, clan leadership structures, and the poetic oral traditions that preserved history across generations. Each chapter breaks complex systems down into teachable components, helping students understand how environmental demands shaped Bedouin technology, social organization, and moral codes.The book also analyzes hospitality practices, trade routes, conflict mediation, marriage customs, and the interplay between tribal identity and regional politics. Drawing upon ethnographic studies, historical documents, and contemporary field research, it offers a precise and classroom-ready framework for explaining how nomadic groups adapted with ingenuity and discipline.For educators seeking a technically grounded portrayal of Bedouin life, this guide provides clarity, cultural depth, and practical insights into a civilization shaped by the deserts uncompromising rhythms.

Long before cities spread across continents, early settlers carved out fragile footholds in harsh, unfamiliar landscapes. Frontiers of Struggle and Survival provides experts and professionals with an informative, deeply contextual examination of how these pioneering communities endured scarcity, danger, and relentless environmental challenges while building the foundations of later civilizations.Drawing from settlement records, archaeological evidence, agricultural studies, and firsthand accounts, this book explores the reality behind frontier mythology. Readers will discover how settlers constructed homes under extreme conditions, preserved food without reliable infrastructure, negotiated withor clashed againstIndigenous populations, and navigated brutal winters, disease outbreaks, and crop failures. It analyzes survival strategies, early governance, resource management, and the fragile economics that shaped settlement success or collapse.Each chapter breaks down the practical systems settlers developedwater sourcing, land clearing, communal labor networks, and improvised medical carerevealing how innovation was often born from desperation rather than choice.Informative, detailed, and grounded in evidence, this resource offers a clear window into the uncompromising world early settlers faced and the complex decisions that defined their survival.

Rising from the Cambodian jungle like a vision carved into the earth itself, Angkor Wat stands as one of humanitys greatest architectural triumphs. Stone of the Eternal Kingdom unveils the astonishing craftsmanship, engineering precision, and spiritual ambition that brought this vast temple city to life.This immersive account guides readers deep into the techniques and technologies that powered the Khmer Empires most iconic construction. From quarrying massive sandstone blocks to orchestrating intricate hydraulic systems, every detail reveals a civilization working at the height of artistic and engineering brilliance. Discover how thousands of specialistssculptors, mathematicians, architects, and laborerscollaborated to erect a structure aligned with celestial rhythms and infused with symbolic meaning.Written for hobbyists who love exploring how ancient wonders were actually made, this book dismantles myths and illuminates the ingenious methods behind Angkor Wats enduring strength. Clear breakdowns, accessible explanations, and vivid storytelling bring the technical marvels of Khmer construction to life. Step behind the stone walls and uncover the real science, labor, and imagination that shaped a monument still standing as a testament to human ingenuity.

Long before Europes oceanic empires emerged, China launched one of the most ambitious naval enterprises in world historythe tremendous Treasure Fleets of the Ming Dynasty. Empire of Silk and Sails delivers a vivid, research-oriented journey into the massive armadas commanded by the famed admiral Zheng He, whose voyages extended Chinas influence across the Indian Ocean and beyond.Crafted for curious hobbyists who love diving into historical mysteries and maritime engineering, this book blends engaging narrative with evidence-based inquiry. It explores how the Ming court assembled colossal ships, organized complex diplomatic missions, and navigated vast distances with remarkable precision. Drawing upon archaeological finds, historical chronicles, and modern scholarship, the story reconstructs how these voyages reshaped global commerce, cultural exchange, and geopolitical power during the early 15th century.From bustling ports filled with exotic goods to towering treasure ships dwarfing contemporary European vessels, the book reveals the fascinating logistics, political ambitions, and technological brilliance behind Chinas unparalleled naval program. Step aboard the floating cities that once dominated the oceans and discover why these legendary expeditions remain one of historys most astonishing maritime achievements.

For more than two millennia, Chinas imperial system shaped culture, governance, warfare, and identity across East Asia. Yet by the 19th and early 20th centuries, the foundations of this once-mighty civilization had begun to fracture. Dynasties in Their Last Twilight offers a clear, reference-oriented guide to the complex factors that led to the decline and eventual end of Imperial China.Designed for hobbyists who love exploring history with structure, clarity, and depth, this book breaks down the major forces that weakened the empire: internal corruption, rising regional warlords, population pressures, technological stagnation, ideological conflict, foreign invasion, and the earth-shaking impact of Western imperialism. Each section distills academic research into accessible reference entries, providing a reliable roadmap for readers who want both overview and detail.Using chronicles, diplomatic records, economic analyses, and cultural studies, the narrative reconstructs the slow unraveling of dynastic authorityfrom the late Ming turmoil through the Qing dynastys struggles and the transformative revolutions that followed. Perfect for readers who enjoy well-organized historical knowledge, this guide illuminates how an ancient system finally gave way to a modern nation.

Over seven centuries ago, a young legal scholar from Tangier set out on a pilgrimageonly to embark on one of the greatest exploratory odysseys in human history. Pathways of the Wandering Scholar offers an informative, insight-driven account of Ibn Battutas extraordinary 75,000-mile journey across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, China, and beyond.Tailored for entrepreneurs who value strategic thinking, cultural intelligence, and the lessons gained from navigating unfamiliar worlds, this book highlights the methods, adaptability, and decision-making that allowed Ibn Battuta to thrive in diverse environments. Readers will discover how he built networks across empires, leveraged his scholarly training for opportunity, and used resilience and observation to survive deserts, storms, rebellions, and political intrigue.Beyond recounting his adventures, the narrative reveals how his travels offer timeless insights into cross-cultural negotiation, personal branding in foreign courts, risk management, and the creation of opportunity through curiosity and mobility. Accessible yet rich in historical detail, this book illuminates how a single traveler transformed his experiences into one of the most valuable geographical and cultural records of the medieval world.

At the height of its influence, the Ottoman Empire commanded continents, seas, cultures, and intellectual horizons. Imperial Radiance Unbound offers beginners a clear, research-grounded introduction to the era often called the Ottoman Golden Agea period defined by military triumphs, architectural splendor, scientific inquiry, flourishing arts, and sophisticated imperial administration.Blending accessible storytelling with careful historical examination, this book guides readers through the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent, the empires political institutions, the multicultural environments of its great cities, and the innovations that propelled its society forward. Rather than relying on legends or dramatized myths, the narrative draws from contemporary records, academic studies, and archaeological findings to uncover how the empire sustained such remarkable power and stability across centuries.From grand mosques rising above Istanbuls skyline to the disciplined organization of the Janissary corps and the vibrant exchanges along its trade routes, each chapter unpacks the forces that shaped this extraordinary era. Perfect for newcomers to Ottoman history, the book provides a solid research-based foundation that illuminates one of the most impressive imperial peaks in world history.