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Monday, July 1, 2024
A review of “The Spanish-American War” (audiobook)
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The Spanish-American War started out as one of the most popular wars in American history . It was only long after the fact that it started ...
Saturday, October 12, 2019
A review of Rafael Lapesa's “Historia de la lengua española”
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“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...
Monday, May 2, 2016
Latin America became independent because of Napoleonic Wars – (well, partially)
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" ... the American continents , by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015
A review of Michael Wood's “Conquistadors”
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A disturbing and intensely fascinating human drama ... It caused the fall of empires, and the rise of a new one in their place. It chang...
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