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

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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La bibliografía sobre la Guerra Civil española y la posguerra es abundante, sin embargo, la resistencia antifranquista, luchadores muchas veces anónimos, representa uno de los episodios menos documentados de la historia de España. Los trabajos existentes están dirigidos sobre todo a especialistas y faltaba una obra de referencia que manifestara cómo y quiénes eran estos guerrilleros y sus agrupaciones al tiempo que describiera la vida en la España de Franco, el impacto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el papel de las mujeres, el miedo, la violencia y muchas veces la desesperación en la...

Jorge Garcia Montes was born in New York, United States, on october 19, 1898. His father, Jose Maria Garcia Montes, was exiled during the war of Cuba's independence against the Spaniards. Later, he became the first Secretary of Finance in 1902 with the first President of the Republic of Cuba, Tomas Estrada Palma. He studied at the University of Havana, where he graduated with a Law degree in 1917. An eminent student, he recieved several awards, among them the Lanuza prize. Elected to the House of Representatives from the Province of Santa Clara, Garcia Montes was a member of the Liberal...