Políticas de la violencia. Europa, siglo XX

En este recorrido por los barrios de la ciudad, los autores contrastan la cotidianidad de la tropa zapatista con la imagen de la elite social de los años veinte, cuando irrumpe la radio en el ámbito doméstico y modifica los ritos familiares; se asoman a la vida de las fábricas chihuahuenses, a las aulas, a las fiestas de uno de tantos pueblos del país, a la sanidad en el puerto de Veracruz, al mundo indígena a través de las imágenes en los libros de texto, a la participación de la mujer en la lucha campesina por la tierra en la ciudad de Monterrey, entre otros aspectos de la vida...

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La presente obra consiste en una sucinta colección de bytes históricos que, en algunos pasajes, pone en tela de juicio leyendas urbanas relacionados con la historia de los Estados Unidos; en otros, ilustra algunos sucesos históricos poco notorios y ofrece un enfoque diferente sobre algunos hechos conocidos.

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...