El arsenal de Clío. El problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990

¿Cómo debe escribirse la historia? Esta cuestión ha sido debatida desde los comienzos de la historiografía griega, que, con la advocación de la musa Clío, subrayó su preocupación literaria. A partir del siglo XIX, la cientifización de los estudios históricos puso de relieve, más allá del problema estilístico, el epistémico de la relación entre conocimiento, lenguaje y realidad pasada. Historiadores, científicos sociales, filósofos y lingüistas han venido tejiendo así una compleja red de argumentos en torno a un temario profundamente antropológico que implica...

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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

“Spin-off” de Varia Nummorum, esta nueva serie de volúmenes tratan de manera breve biografías, noticias, batallas, países, etc. de la Antigüedad y la Alta Edad Media del Viejo Continente, con especial referencia a los siglos II-I a.C.

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