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Free Download Ciarán Walsh, "Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage "
English | ISBN: 1800739826 | 2023 | 306 pages | PDF | 22 MB
An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology.

Free Download Peter Standish, "Understanding Julio Cortázar (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)"
English | 2001 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 1570033900 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Elucidates the work of the Argentinean writer best known for the novel Rayuela (Hopscotch)

Free Download Irwin R. Blacker, "Cortés and the Aztec Conquest"
English | 2015 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 1640192719 | EPUB | 10,1 mb
In three years, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, leading a few hundred Spanish soldiers, overcame a centuries-old empire that could put tens of thousands of warriors on the field. Even after his god-like reputation had been shattered, and his horses and cannons were no longer regarded as supernatural, his ruthless daring took him on to victory. Yet in the end, his prize was not the gold that he had sought, but the destruction of the entire Aztec civilization.