Guía del patrimonio cultural de Madrid

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Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

Medievalista de prestigio internacional, Guy Bois ejerce, sin embargo, en este libro de historiador a secas y comprometido con su tiempo. En él nos ofrece un análisis lúcido, y a la vez sencillo, de la mundialización, vasta empresa de dominación y explotación del mundo, que avanza sobre varios frentes: económico, político, ideológico. Desde hace más de veinte años, ahonda las desigualdades sociales en todas partes; vacía las democracias de su sustancia; se impone por la fuera de la desinformación y las manipulaciones de la opinión; y no duda en recurrir a la guerra con una...