El taller del historiador

Toda la cultura azteca y en particular la ceremonia del sacrificio, sus significados e implicaciones, aparecen bajo una nueva luz en este estudio: pocas veces, según muestra Duverger, una civilización estuvo tan obsesionada por el devenir y por la muerte como la que se asentó en México-Tenochtitlán.

El volumen hace alusion a las independencias iberoamericanas en el subtitulo porque son ellas las que marcan un hito en las visiones que las elites regionales lanzan sobre el pasado con vistas al futuro, pero en una operacion que busca cimentar su poder en el presente. Ellas, las guerras de independencia y los procesos inmediatos que les siguen, son el punto de partida de la "historia nacional" y la relacion de esa historia nueva con el pasado colonial sera en muchos casos, como sabemos, materia prima de la disputa entre liberales y conservadores. Se trata de "estabilizar" el pasado, de...

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...

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