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1) Morelos
Series
Publisher
DistriMax Inc., [2013]
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
Español
Description
Portrays the last years in the life of José Maria Morelos y Pavón (1765-1815), Mexican hero, who after escaping the siege of his enemies takes one of the most important cities of Mexico. However, having more than half of the Mexican territory in his hands, he insists on taking over the Acapulco harbor while the royal troops rearrange themselves, grow stronger and slowly gain their territory back.
Publisher
Sixteen Films
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new history, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a ragtag collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most formidable empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans...
6) The hacienda
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solorzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the...
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Depicts Mexico's struggle for independence against Spain in thirteen half-hour episodes. With a star-studded cast and lavish set and costume design, the miniseries is the definitive portrayal of Mexico's prominent heroes and key historical moments integral to winning the country's freedom.
Author
Publisher
MyFi, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When you invest rather than ingest your coffee money, you can achieve financial independence one cup of coffee at a time. _The Five-Hundred-Dollar Cup of Coffee_ helps balance present-day choices and future needs by asking : 'why are you paying 500 dollars for a cup of coffee?' If you're a baby-boomer, like authors Dave Kramer and Steve Lome, you're not. But if you're 20 or 30-something years old, consistent investment of small amounts adds up over...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 comes this groundbreaking history of the Irish Revolution. The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture, but seldom understood. For too long, the story of Irish independence and its aftermath has been told only within an Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed Bitter Freedom, journalist Maurice Walsh, with 'a novelist's eye for the illuminating detail of everyday...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"-- Provided by publisher.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence. V�eronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father's cause. Then she falls for James Ph�enix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent. His sister, Elodie Ph�enix, one of the Duplessis Orphans,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is considered by many to be a masterpiece of political analysis and a compelling rationale against the French Revolution. Originally written as a letter in response to a young Parisian and later expanded upon and published in book format in January 1790, the work has greatly influenced conservative and classic liberal intellectuals and stands as a powerful argument against violent revolutions,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many kids have heard of the Declaration of Independence, but few know the story behind the people and events that helped forge it. They may know about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but do they know the roles that Patrick Henry and Thomas Gage played in setting fire to a revolution? This is the story of how the men and women of thirteen British colonies came to declare their independence on July 4, 1776. Covering major events such as...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Allen makes the case that we cannot have freedom as individuals without equality among us as a people. Evoking the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen describes the challenges faced by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston--the "Committee of Five" who had to write a document that reflected the aspirations of a restive population and forge an unprecedented social contract. Although the focus is...
Author
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren...
“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren...
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