Sublime

Dans un essai publié en 2000, intitulé Le Mystère du capital et sous-titré Pourquoi le capitalisme triomphe à l’Ouest et échoue partout ailleurs, l’économiste péruvien Hernando de Soto avançait une explication alors inédite au sous-développement persistant d’une large partie de la planète. Selon lui, les citoyens des pays les plus pauvres sont péna

Elizabeth’s navy, however well trained, was no match numerically for Medina Sidonia’s massive fleet, which appeared off Cornwall on July 29.71 The queen did, however, have a strategy. She’d first brought Drake home, knowing that her admirals could best confront the Armada in the English Channel, where they knew it would have to be. She foresaw no g

In the late 1860s the president of the Dominican Republic signaled that he would welcome the U.S. purchase of his country. President Ulysses S. Grant was eager for the deal—the Dominican Republic was, after all, prime sugar and coffee real estate. Yet even with a rich country served up on a plate, even at the urging of a popular war-hero president

Clinton and Giuliani marched in a parade for Albizu, but did they know who he was? Very likely not. The epic battle between Muñoz Marín and Albizu in the fifties transformed Puerto Rican society, but it barely registered elsewhere. If mainlanders think about Puerto Rican history in that period at all, the image that comes to their mind is an entire

luring Osceola into a parley under a flag of truce and then arresting him.