Toward a Contemporary City

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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Es éste un ágil relato periodístico que, lejos de sucumbir a las valoraciones simplistas o las opiniones maniqueas, deja hablar a los actores, rescata testimonios y documentos, pone en orden la historia, para entender mejor las ideas del México inconforme, guerrillero, que se lanza a la lucha armada porque ve cerrados todos los caminos. Sólo tomando el pulso al pasado podremos adivinar lo que nos espera en el futuro.

Creado a finales del siglo xix desde una óptica eurocéntrica, Oriente Medio es un término que hoy en día sirve para denominar un amplio territorio que se extiende desde Marruecos a Irán. Una región estratégica por la presencia de petróleo, convulsionada por múltiples factores de crisis cuyo volumen ha recorrido la historia política desde la expedición de Napoleón a Egipto y el encuentro con la modernidad, a la reforma del imperio otomano y la caída de los califatos, el proceso de descolonización, la guerra del Sinaí de 1967, la revolución iraní, la presencia de los talibanes...