El futuro era nuestro

John Lynch nos ofrece en este libro una rica y amplia panorámica de la España del siglo XVIII, y de su imperio americano, considerada en todas sus dimensiones -la política, la economía, las transformaciones sociales, la cultura- y que algunos críticos han señalado ya como la mejor visión de conjunto de esta época que se haya publicado hasta hoy. Lo cual no debe hacernos pensar que nos encontramos ante el típico manual destinado únicamente al estudio y la cunsulta. Por el contrario, este es un libro escrito pensando en el lector común, un libro que el profesor Charles C. Noel ha...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El doctor Luis Suárez Fernández ha sabido revivir con maestría las emociones de peligro dinástico y nacional del reinado de don Juan I. El rey castellano recibió un reino hipotecado por problemas derivados del anterior reinado: Portugal e Inglaterra siguieron siendo contrarios al titular de Castilla y León. Juan de Gante, casado con Constanza, hija de Pedro I, reclamaba el trono. Pero su compleja política exterior va más allá, pues en el otro frente Juan I quiso ocupar Lisboa y hubo de aceptar la derrota de Aijubarrota. Su política interior, sin embargo, se caracterizó por una...