Showing posts with label Spaniard history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spaniard history. Show all posts
Saturday, May 23, 2026

The Thirty Years’ War was intertwined with many other conflicts

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The Thirty Years’ War eventually claimed at least four million lives … It was one of the most destructive wars in European history . The Thi...
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 ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

History of the European Union

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“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

What fascism is (and why it stinks)

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Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...
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...