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'La historia la escriben los vencedores', sentenció el escritor inglés George Orwell. Esto bien lo saben los mapuches. ¿Cómo se entiende si no que un pueblo guerrero en el siglo dieciséis, diplomático en el diecisiete, rico y ganadero en el dieciocho y diecinueve, pasara a ser más tarde en la historia oficial chileno-argentina una tropa de 'salvajes y bárbaros'? ¿O que sus grandes líderes y estadistas, que parlamentaron siglos con la Corona Española y mantuvieron luego nutrida correspondencia con mandatarios de ambas repúblicas, fueran degradados a indios 'traidores' y 'rencorosos', 'ladrones' y 'borrachos'? 'El único deber que tenemos con la historia es reescribirla', señaló el poeta y dramaturgo irlandés Oscar Wilde. En este nuevo libro del periodista Pedro Cayuqueo, la historia mapuche es reescrita para honrar la memoria de sus ancestros. Pero no se trata de un anecdotario. Mucho menos de un panfleto. Un gran trabajo de investigación y extensa bibliografía que incluye a destacados académicos, así como memorias de cronistas y viajeros que recorrieron en tiempos pasados el Wallmapu libre, sostienen cada una de sus páginas. El autor reescribe, haciendo uso de la crónica periodística, la fascinante historia de resistencia de su pueblo. Y lo hace de manera diferente, entretenida, casi en lenguaje cinematográfico, como si se tratara de una serie de Netflix. Nunca antes la historia mapuche la contaron así.
Pedro Cayuqueo (Author), Alejandro Bono (Narrator)
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Huitzilopochtli: The History of the Aztec God of War and Human Sacrifice
As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to gods all across Mesoamerica, from the Olmec and Toltec to the Aztec and Maya. Furthermore, thousands of people still gather in the ruins of Mesoamerican cities, even as researchers learn more about the civilizations that continue to fascinate modern societies. To the Aztec, Huitzilopochtli wore a blue-green hummingbird helmet and was draped in pure white heron feathers. He carried a smoking mirror, an obsidian mirror, a shield, darts, and the serpent Xiuhcoatl that carried with it the fury and might of the sun. Everything about him - from his clothes to his weapons - emanated and defined royalty. His name meant Hummingbird of the South or Hummingbird of the Left (meaning the "Southern Part of the World") in the native language of the Aztec, Nahuatl. In his kingly role he was not only irrevocably intertwined with war and conquest but also with trade, the things most important to the great Aztec Empire. He was as bloodthirsty as he was just, and he was the pillar of Aztec society from its mythical beginnings to its tragic end. The wonderful thing about Huitzilopochtli is that his position in the Aztec pantheon of gods is difficult to define, far more than it would be to define the roles of Zeus, Jupiter, or Odin. Huitzilopochtli was the patron god of the Aztec, but modern scholars tend to think of his importance in terms of scaled growth from (possibly) a mortal man of great acclaim to the god whose temple was at the heart of the Aztec empire. His myth not only formed the basis of some of the more honored and bloody rituals performed by the Aztec, but actually influenced the modern-day Mexican coat of arms that can be found on the national flag. Huitzilopochtli: The History of the Aztec God of War and Human Sacrifice examines the origins of the deity and his place in the pantheon of gods.
Charles River Editors (Author), Bill Hare (Narrator)
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon
In the early years of the eighteenth century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. One was murdered, another perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. At the expedition's end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Grameson, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, victims of a tangled web of international politics. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it left all of eighteenth-century Europe spellbound. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion. Drawing on the original writings of the French mapmakers, as well as his own experience retracing Isabel's journey, acclaimed writer Robert Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement.
Robert Whitaker (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)
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Cinco de Mayo: The History of the Battle of Puebla and the Famous Holiday
"We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality and in elevation of feeling, that I beg your Excellency to be so good as to inform the emperor that I am already master of Mexico." - French General Charles de Lorencez before the Battle of Puebla There are two great misconceptions about Cinco de Mayo in the United States, despite the fact it has become one of the country's most beloved days. The first misconception is that the date marks the Independence of Mexico, and the second is that the celebration was imported in relatively recent times by Mexican immigrants. In fact, May 5 does not mark Mexico's independence (which is celebrated on September 16), but the day of the most important battle in the history of the country, fought against the French. Furthermore, the celebration of Cinco de Mayo did not originate in Mexico but in America in the 1860s, shortly after the Battle of Puebla. Indeed, Mexico was still occupied by the French at the time, and Cinco de Mayo is actually as American as apple pie. The Battle of Puebla took place 100 miles east of Mexico City in May 1862, pitting a poorly-fed, ill-equipped and inexperienced Mexican army, largely formed by peasants who were simply given a rifle or a saber, against one of Europe's greatest powers. Nonetheless, the results would demonstrate not only Mexico's integrity but also the crumbling of colonial European power in the Americas. The triumph of a modest Mexican general who was born in Texas was a surprise not only for Mexicans, but even more so for French Emperor Napoleon III and his army, considered to be 'the first soldiers of the world.' It also resonated in the European press that expected to see a re-conquest of Mexico without great difficulties. Things would forever be different in the Americas. 150 years later, Cinco de Mayo is firmly established as a party day for millions of people, most notably in America. The streets fill with dances, colorful parades, mariachi music, and lots of Mexican food, as Americans consume 81 million pounds of avocados, millions of bags of tortilla chips, and $735 million worth of beer, not to mention the countless margaritas made with 127 million liters of tequila, a drink that everyone properly associates with Mexico. The celebration is not limited to the Hispanic community, either, as people of all origins commemorate the day to recognize Mexico's contribution to North American history or to have fun and drink more tequila than ever. Even America's federal government has joined the festivities; since the 1980s, the White House has celebrated Cinco de Mayo with mariachi music and Mexican dances, making clear the connection between the Mexican victory and America's own Civil War. Cinco de Mayo: The History of the Battle of Puebla and the Famous Mexican Holiday looks at the important battle, its ramifications, and the celebration of the event. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Cinco de Mayo like never before.
Charles River Editors (Author), Bill Hare (Narrator)
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolom de las Casas
"A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the European explorers and conquerors, Las Casas went on to be a leading opponent of slavery, torture, and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. "A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is his personal account, with chapters covering Cuba, Nicaragua, Hispaniola, Guatemala, Venezuela, Florida, and many other areas conquered by the Spaniards.
Bartolome De Las Casas (Author), Jason Mccoy (Narrator)
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Unlike the USA, the history of Mexico dates back to well within 1900 years or so. Discovery of Mexico was a coincidence. Again, the Spaniards were the first to discover Mexico too. French and the Spanish armies try to invade Mexico and neighboring parts of the north Americas. The Mexican revolution that followed the American Revolution brought in total peace and Mexico gained total liberty from the foreign imperialistic measures. Sooner broke out the war between the neighbors which did not last for longer. Terms and pacts brought in peace in the borders after mutual agreement made with the USA. Today Mexico is one of the competent nations of the world, with massive natural resources and technological growth and development in the 21st century.
Introbooks, Introbooks Team (Author), Andrea Giordani, Introbooks (Narrator)
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Colonial Argentina: The History of Argentina's Colonization and Struggle for Independence
Naturally, the arrival in 1492 of Christopher Columbus on the leeward islands of the Bahamas triggered the first of the great permutations that would reshape South America and Mesoamerica forever. Though he was Italian, Columbus sailed as an agent of Spain's Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and "discovered" the New World in the name of the Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. By the time Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold. As the common story goes, Columbus, en route back to Spain from his first journey, called in at Lisbon as a courtesy to brief the Portuguese King John II of his discovery of the New World. King John subsequently protested that according to the 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas, which divided the Atlantic Ocean between Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, the newly discovered lands rightly belonged to Portugal. To make clear the point, a Portuguese fleet was authorized and dispatched west from the Tagus to lay claim to the "Indies," which prompted a flurry of diplomatic activity in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. At the time, Spain lacked the naval power to prevent Portugal from acting on this threat, and the result was the hugely influential 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. The Treaty of Tordesillas was one of the most important documents of its kind of the age, for it established the essential parameters of the two competing empires, the first of the major European imperial entities. The Treaty of Tordesillas drew an imaginary line from pole to pole, running 100 leagues west of the westernmost islands of the Azores. According to the terms of a supporting papal bull, all the lands to the west of that belonged to Spain, and all of those to the east belonged to Portugal. What this meant in practical terms was that Portugal was given Africa and the Indian Ocean while Spain was granted all the lands to the west, including the Americas and the Caribbean, all collectively known as the "Indies," or the New World. The Treaty of Tordesillas, however, contained an anomaly. Unknown at the time to its drafters, the treaty's line cut across the westernmost brow of South America, more or less from the mouth of the Amazon to Porto Alegre, both in modern Brazil, meaning that everything to the east of that legally belonged to Portugal. This fact was only revealed in 1500 thanks to an expedition by the Portuguese mariner Pedro Álvares Cabral. While en route to India, his expedition sailed in a wide arc in the mid-Atlantic searching for the trade winds and unexpectedly landed off the coast of the South American mainland. There was little the Spanish could do about it, and as a consequence, the vast Portuguese colony of Brazil was established in a region nominally claimed by Spain. Perhaps inevitably, a regional rivalry had developed as the Portuguese began to establish a colony in Brazil and push its boundaries southwards. After the conquest of the Incas in the 1530s, the Portuguese threat prompted the authorization of a second expedition, commanded this time by Pedro de Mendoza with a force of some 1,500 men. The party arrived at the mouth of the Río de la Plata in 1536, and there Mendoza founded the settlement of Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre. This was the basis of the future city of Buenos Aires, but its establishment was not without resistance from surrounding tribes, marking the kind of conflicts that would shape the history and independence movements of Argentina over the next 300 years.
Charles River Editors (Author), Colin Fluxman (Narrator)
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Incas: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Historia del Imperio y la Civilización Inca
Explora la Fascinante Historia de los Incas Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo en ese momento. Hay muchos misterios que rodean a los incas. ¿Dónde se originaron? ¿Cómo llegaron a reinar sobre un imperio tan vasto que incluía montañas, selvas tropicales y zonas costeras? ¿Cuáles fueron los logros más destacados de sus grandes reyes? ¿Cómo eran sus templos y monumentos, especialmente la ciudad capital, Cuzco, y su impresionante asentamiento en la cima de la montaña, el Machu Picchu, en lo que hoy es Perú? Algunos temas y preguntas presentados en este libro: - Cómo Registraban su Historia los Incas - El Mito Inca de la Creación - La Fundación de la Gran Ciudad de Cuzco - La Primer Dinastía de Gobernantes Incas y sus Mayores Obras - El surgimiento del Imperio Inca: ¿Un Evento Cosmológico? - Orden Social en la Sociedad Inca - El Orden Religioso e Ideología Inca - Recorrido por los Sitios Incas más Importantes - esde Pachacuti hasta la Llegada de los Españoles - La Conquista Española - Las Repercusiones y el Legado Inca - ¡Y mucho más que no querrás perderte! ¡Adquiere el libro ya y aprende todo lo que puedas sobre la Incas!
Captivating History (Author), Nicolas Villanueva (Narrator)
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Antiguas Civilizaciones: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Historia de los Mayas, Aztecas y el Imperio In
Explore la cautivadora historia y mitología de tres civilizaciones antiguas Tres manuscritos en un libro - Civilización Maya: Una guía fascinante de la historia y la mitología maya - Azteca: Una Guía Fascinante De La Historia Azteca y la Triple Alianza de Tenochtitlán, Tetzcoco y Tlacopan - Incas: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Historia del Imperio y la Civilización Inca Algunos de los temas y preguntas cubiertos en la primera parte de este libro incluyen: - Línea de tiempo maya - Glosario de los términos mayas más importantes - Los orígenes de las civilizaciones mesoamericanas - El periodo Arcaico: 7000 – 2000 a.C. - Los olmecas: 1200 – 300 a.C. - El periodo Preclásico y la espléndida zapoteca - Periodo Preclásico Temprano: 2000 a 1000 a.C. - Cuello y la arquitectura maya primitiva - Periodo Preclásico Medio: 1000 a 300 a.C. - ¡Y mucho má Algunos de los temas y preguntas cubiertos en la segunda parte de este libro incluyen: - Los Orígenes de los Aztecas: Una Tribu Destinada a la Grandeza - La Llegada No Deseada al Valle de México - El Ascenso de Tenochtitlán y la Triple Alianza - Los Reyes Aztecas Más Grandes y su Herencia - El Esplendor de Tenochtitlán Algunos de los temas y preguntas cubiertos en la tercera parte de este libro incluyen: - Cómo Registraban su Historia los Incas - El Mito Inca de la Creación - La Fundación de la Gran Ciudad de Cuzco - La Primer Dinastía de Gobernantes Incas y sus Mayores Obras - El surgimiento del Imperio Inca: ¿Un Evento Cosmológico? - El Orden Religioso e Ideología Inca - ¡Y mucho más que no querrás perderte! ¡Obtenga el libro ahora para conocer más sobre antiguas civilizaciones!
Captivating History (Author), Massiel Pena, Nicolas Villanueva (Narrator)
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William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and H
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background-he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor-Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out-efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from U.S. history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.
Scott Martelle (Author), David Colacci (Narrator)
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Los cuadernos: Cómo fue la investigación secreta del caso de corrupción más importante de la histori
Cómo se hizo la investigación periodística que develó cómo el kirchnerismo recaudaba millones de dólares de empresarios corruptos para financiar su aparato político y enriquecer funcionarios. 902 páginas 10 años de recaudación ilegal 43 compañías involucradas 112 funcionarios y empresarios mencionados 36.000 millones de dólares en efectivo La trama secreta del caso de corrupción más importante de la historia argentina El 1 de febrero de 2005, Oscar Centeno empezó a escribir un diario de sus tareas como chofer de Roberto Baratta, el principal recaudador de dinero negro del kirchnerismo. Página a página aparecen funcionarios, empresarios y miembros del círculo gubernamental, hoteles y domicilios adónde se retiraban paquetes enormes de billetes. Desde los pedidos de helado para el ministro Julio De Vido -la cabeza del sistema recaudador al servicio de Néstor Kirchner- hasta las facturas de los bolsos para transportar sobornos millonarios que se dejaban en la Casa Rosada, la Residencia de Olivos y el edificio del matrimonio presidencial. Una década después, Centeno había completado 8 cuadernos y un anotador. Cuando llegaron a sus manos, Diego Cabot se dedicó a chequear uno a uno los datos que allí se consignaban. Meses más tarde, esa pesquisa minuciosa y secreta se transformó en la primicia más espectacular de la historia y dio pie a la mayor causa anticorrupción de la que se tenga memoria en el país. En Los Cuadernos, Cabot revela al fin toda la verdad de una investigación sin precedentes que generó cientos de especulaciones, operaciones y contra operaciones, arrepentidos, denuncias, encarcelamientos y traiciones y que cambió para siempre la forma de hacer política en la Argentina.
Diego Cabot (Author), Alejandro Graue (Narrator)
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Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico
There have been many Mexicos: the country of varied terrain, of Amerindian heritage, of the Spanish Conquest, of the Revolution, and of the modern era of elections and the rule of bankers. Mexico was forged in the fires of successive civilizations, and baptized with the blood of millions, all of whom added tragic dimensions to the modern Mexican identity. T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between them, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization by the first millennium B.C.; the successive reigns of Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Mexic masters, who ruled through an admirably efficient bureaucracy and the power of the priests, propitiating the capricious gods with human sacrifices; the Spanish conquistadors, who used smallpox, technology, and their own ruthless individualism to erect a new tyranny over the ruins of the old; the agony of independent Mexico, struggling with the weight of its overwhelming past and tremendous potential. Throughout the narrative the author resurrects the great personalities of Mexican history, such as Motecuhzoma, Cortes, Santa Anna, Juárez, Maximilian, Diaz, Pancho Villa, and Zapata. Fehrenbach, who has updated this edition to include recent events, has created a work of scholarly perspective and gripping prose.
T. R. Fehrenbach (Author), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Narrator)
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