Breve historia de Carlos V

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La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.

La guerra civil española fue uno de los conflictos más complejos y crueles del siglo XX. ¿Cuáles fueron sus causas? ¿Por qué continúa ejerciendo hoy una fascinación particular?La conocida hispanista Helen Graham pone de relieve el contexto nacional e internacional de la guerra, y revela sus orígenes en las inquietudes políticas y culturales provocadas por la rápida modernización de Europa. Valiéndose de narraciones personales, combina un relato vigoroso y humano de la guerra y sus consecuencias con una incitante indagación ética de su legado para el siglo XXI. Se trata, sin...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...