De humilde e ilustre cuna: retratos familiares de la España Moderna (siglos XV-XIX)

En El nacimiento de las instituciones, Enrique Krauze recupera una de las historias más apasionantes del México contemporáneo: en los turbulentos años posteriores a la Revolución, cuando se temía una invasión por parte de Estados Unidos, el presidente Plutarco Elías Calles emprendió una vasta obra de reconstrucción material e institucional. Hombres como Alberto J. Pani, Luis Montes de Oca, Manuel Gómez Morin, Moisés Sáenz y Gonzalo Robles, entre otros, se encargaron de realizar esa obra creativa con tiempo limitado y pocos recursos, pero también con claridad, profesionalismo y...

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La masacre que da fin a la guerra civil en Chile después de la Guerra del Pacífico Tras las guerras de la Araucanía y la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1884), la Guerra civil se desata en Chile en 1891 donde el ejercito del presidente José Manuel Balmaceda se enfrentaba al llamado Comité Revolucionario de Santiago compuesto por montoneros. Un grupo de estos se refugia en el fundo Lo Cañas, propiedad de Carlos Walker Martínez y cerca de Santiago, donde son sometidos a terribles masacres y al incendio del lugar por un batallón de soldados a cargo del general Orozimbo Barbosa. Los autores de ...

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