Europenii cauta El Dorado - Raimondo Luraghi, 1971, istoria imperiilor coloniale

Editura: Politica Data aparitie: 1971 Limba: Romana Coperta: Brosata (paperback) Numar volume: 1 Numar pagini: 382 Dimensiuni: 190 x 115 x 21 mm Greutate: 0.33 kg Traducator: Cristina Boico si Eugen Costescu Observatii: Include ilustratii Raimondo Luraghi ( Milan , 16 August 1921 – Turin , 28 December 2012 ) was an Italian historian and partisan . After the war he was editor of the Piedmontese edition of L' Unità . Having graduated in Turin with Romolo Quazza , with a thesis on Piedmontese anti-fascism, he was a tenured professor of history and philosophy in high schools (1954) and then appointed, full and finally emeritus professor of American History and coordinator of the PhD in History of the Americas at the University of Genoa . He was also the holder, albeit as a contract professor, of the chairs of American History and Modern History at the Free International University of Social Studies Guido Carli (Luiss) in Rome. He is considered one of the world's leading scholars of the American Civil War , of whose military aspects he has given original interpretations supported by metal detector research on the battlefields. His work History of the American Civil War , considered the best single-volume work on the subject in the world, was translated into English and became a classic even in the United States of America itself . He was an invited professor at various North American universities , from Harvard to Richmond ( Virginia ), to Notre Dame ( Indiana ), to the University of New York , to the University of Georgia and also to the Canadian University of Toronto . In 1999 he received the Roosevelt Prize for Naval History, the first time awarded to a non-American scholar. Together with the Chinese captain Huang Jalin he published the first original Italian translation of Sun Tzu 's The Art of War .