El comercio y el poder en México, 1821-1864

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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Las tesis de Morgan y Bandelier pertenecen al siglo XIX, cuando la antropología y la arqueología no existían como ciencias: a pesar de esto, sus estudios contribuyen al análisis de la sociedad azteca y nos conducen a verla con una VISIÓN CRÍTICA: pero, sobre todo, a comprender lo que fue en su esencia el México antiguo.

El profesor Antonio Fernández analiza el proceso revolucionario ruso desde sus prolegómenos -revolución de 1905- hasta la muerte de su principal protagonista, Lenin, en 1924 Lenin, Trostski, Stalin... prestan su voz para acercarnos al que ha sido llamado el mayor acontecimiento del siglo XX: la transformación de una autocracia coronada en una república federal de signo socialista.