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¿Cómo y por qué se escribe un libro de historia? En este volumen, dieciséis destacados historiadores nos abren sus "talleres". Sus ensayos, además de elucidar importantes problemas del pasado, nos revelan los métodos de investigación del historiador moderno.

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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...

La historiografía es, sin duda, una de las más complejas y ricas creaciones que nos legó la Antigüedad. El exuberante estallido cultural que permitió a Grecia ser cuna de las ciencias y la filosofía, fue tradicionalmente el escena-rio en el que los estudiosos situaron su origen. Sin embargo, las últimas décadas han asistido a una auténtica revolución en el estudio de la historiografía antigua, que ha obligado a replantearse muchos de los apriorismos que caracterizaban nuestra comprensión del género historiográfico. Aunando la insustituible labor crítica de otras generaciones...