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“…America has been hailed as the land of personal freedom, where the rights of the single citizen reign over the demands and expectations of the masses. …”
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“…Este libro es un análisis de las causas que han generado los populismos imperantes hoy en Europa y América. Unos de izquierda, de raíz marxista; otros nacionalistas, de derecha o extrema derecha. …”

“…This second edition applies the analytical tools developed to help readers understand the origins of the financial crisis of 2007, the ensuing 'Great Recession', and why government policies in Europe and North America over the past six years have failed to improve matters for the majority of their citizens. …”

“…In the last decades of the twentieth century, a 'memory boom' took place in Western Europe and North America. It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. …”

“…The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. …”

“…The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the U.S. …”

“…After 9/11, after Katrina, Enron and Baghdad, the robustness of American optimism is struggling to reassert itself against the sobering reality of military frustration and domestic anxieties. This is an America grappling with an un-American sense of its own limits. …”
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“…La divulgación de los descubrimientos geográficos se ha centrado casi exclusivamente en América, y en menor escala en África. Tal proceder no responde a la realidad objetiva, por cuanto los descubrimientos realizados en Asia, Australia y los territorios árticos están repletos de apasionante interés y lances sorprendentes…”

“…The collection is considered one of Benchley's "most brilliant". A reviewer at America wrote, that My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew is "bristling... with tiny, droll essays on almost every subject imaginable, and inducing in the reader a state of sustained hilarity". …”

“…Trump rocked an already divided America and left scores of citizens, including the nearly sixty-five million voters who supported Hillary Clinton, feeling bereft and powerless. …”