Políticas de la violencia. Europa, siglo XX

Este libro contiene los tomos primero, segundo y tercero de las Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América Meridional de José Eusebio Llano Zapata (Lima 1721-Cádiz 1780), las cuales abarcan respectivamente los reinos mineral, vegetal y animal. Los dos volúmenes manuscritos consultados en la Real Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid catalogados como 11/1809 y 11/1810, fueron concluidos hacia 1757. Ricardo Palma publicó el primer tomo dedicado al reino mineral en 1904 en una edición patrocinada por la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. Desde entonces, y por mucho...

Mike Davis examina una serie de sequías inducidas por el fenómeno “El Niño” y las hambrunas que éstas provocaron por todo el globo terráqueo en el último tercio del siglo XIX. Davis revela que hubo una relación íntima y funesta entre la arrogancia imperial y los fenómenos naturales que causó varias de las peores tragedias de la historia de la humanidad y plantó las semillas del subdesarrollo en lo que después se ha llamado el Tercer Mundo. «Davis nos ha dado un libro muy relevante para el período contemporáneo y de gran interés histórico» (Amartya Sen). «Una crónica...

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