“…With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Macroeconomic prospects for Latin America -- China: A game-changer for macro prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interrupts and Interrupt Handling; Chapter 30. A Letter from America; Appendix A: Installing your Beboputer; Appendix B: Beboputer Addressing Modes and Instruction Set; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Teleology in the revolutionary polis -- The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America / Francisco A. Ortega -- Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law / Martti Koskenniemi -- Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx / Etienne Balibar -- V. …”

“…This volume on the Book of Daniel has been prepared by two distinguished biblical scholars from the faculty of the Catholic University of America: Alexander A. Di Lella, Professor of Old Testament, and the late Louis F. …”

“…Basaso en los expedientes inéditos del proceso ordinario (1617-1618) y apostólico (1630-1632) de beatificación y canonizacíon, el libro analiza el universo místico y visionario de santa Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), la primera santa america. Pese a haber sido cuestionada por la Inquisición limeña e identificada con las herterodoxias alumbradistas españolas, aquí se rastrean los modelos católicos de piedad femenina y las fuentes intelectuales que explican la rigurosa vida penitencial de la santa limeña…”

“…The study of the history of working-class life in America underwent a major transformation in the 1970s. Moving beyond labor history’s earlier institutional paradigm, with its focus on union structures and leaders, the New Labor History expanded its reach into new territories of working-class culture and community, to the point that the field today is generally referred to as Labor and Working-Class History. …”

“…As it should be: since they represent the fate of language and translation in the memory of aliens living inside America — like a family going nowhere together, but at home. …”

“…Our analysis also suggests that re-elections of incumbent candidates in Latin America have a considerable impact on the expenditure side of the fiscal balance. …”

“…Studying the dialogue between literature and philosophy in the Spanish exile in Latin America requires a historiographical effort, since the exile is framed in a historical before and after: in the "before" of its traditional context, that of the ideas belonging to the place of origin prior to exile. …”

“…Hartmann takes us from the birth of America as a revolt against monopoly (remember the Boston Tea Party?)…”

“…In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This “industrious revolution†is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial Revolution took shape. …”
Sumario

“…In long-term competitions where the diplomatic jockeying is intense and the threat of violence is omnipresent, the United States will need all the historical insight it can get. Exploring how America won a previous twilight struggle is the starting point for determining how America can successfully prosecute another high-stakes rivalry today -- Editor…”

“…His seminal 1967 essay "Civil Religion in America" created a huge debate across disciplines which continues to this day; his co-authored book Habits of the Heart (1985) was a bestseller (it sold close to 500,000 copies) and became the object of sustained public discussion about the temptations and dangers of radical individualism. …”

“…In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth. …”

“…Thrift and Thriving in America is a collection of groundbreaking essays from leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences on the seminal importance of thrift to American culture and history. …”

“…Founded in 1779, and nourished over the next two-hundred-plus years by wave after wave of immigrants from every conceivable part of the globe, Chicago today is a vivid metaphor for the boundless drive, vitality, and variety of America itself. A city of lush green parks and gray lake waters, of steel towers and high rise canyons, of sun and snow and, all too often, wind, Chicago is at once urban and bucolic, decidedly modern and almost pre-World War II quaint. …”

“…"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. …”