Clásicos para las masas

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Durante siglos viajeros de todas las culturas se han quedado maravillados por esta belleza sin edad. El norteamericano Washington Irving, prototipo de historiador romántico, inicia un viaje por tierras andaluzas que le llevará a instalarse en Granada. Allí empezará a trazar un paisaje de la Granada de la época, sus gentes, sus calles, sus costumbres, etc, que será plasmado en los cuentos y leyendas que existen en torno a la Alhambra y a su pasado hispanomusulmán. Un viaje por el pasado de una ciudad pintoresca y plural: comunidad judía, aroma musulmán y presencia cristiana.

En un mundo como el actual los historiadores necesitan un enfoque global; pero eso no se consigue con una simple extensión del campo examinado en las viejas historias de estados y naciones, sino que requiere métodos nuevos, adecuados al estudio de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Sebastian Conrad examina aquí el desarrollo de las distintas visiones de la historia mundial, desde Herodoto o Ibn Jaldun hasta Toynbee, McNeill o Wallerstein, y las respuestas recientes —historia comparada, transnacional, postcolonial, de la globalización...— para proponernos los fundamentos de un...

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