Un edén para Colombia al otro lado de la civilización

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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...

Novedoso estudio comparativo del catolicismo europeo contemporáneo, que describe sistemáticamente la experiencia española, francesa, alemana, italiana, portuguesa y belga ante las cuestiones decisivas para entender la historia de este último siglo. De especial interés es el acercamiento a la situación de los jesuitas desde la posguerra y el tratamiento del anticlericalismo. En un momento en el que se quiere que la Iglesia ocupe un plano secundario, el autor nos muestra, con un riguroso análisis, la presencia social que el pueblo cristiano -aunque a veces de forma minoritaria- sigue...

Nadie como Mendoza dirigió con tanto empeño sus esfuerzos para recopilar los cantos y las tonadas que surgieron en el seno mismo del pueblo mexicano durante los siglos XIX y XX; frente el pasado reciente, la obra de este estudioso adquiere un perfil definido de gran tarea de rescate y ordenamiento. Este es un estudio monográfico y de carácter antológico consagrado a la canción popular de nuestro país.