Con caña y café

Este importante libro recoge una serie de trabajos en torno a la Revolución francesa y el final del Antiguo Régimen, sin pretender hacer una historia lineal de la Revolución, sino plantear la existencia real de un debate que continúa en la actualidad y que cada día adquiere mayor virulencia. El motivo de la virulencia que adquiere el tema día a día no es una simple discusión erudita, sino que bajo el debate subyacen importantes problemas políticos y sociales que interesan a las sociedades capitalistas desarrolladas de hoy. Para algunas corrientes historiográficas, los conceptos de...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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La dimensión del viaje y el viajero, incluso en el mundo contemporáneo, es mucho más amplia y diversa. En este libro presentamos algunos viajes y viajeros que inspiran una original reflexión, por parte de los autores, sobre la evolución del concepto de viajar desde los orígenes hasta nuestros días.