Entre Washington y Gernika

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En este segundo tomo, Braudel relata en el capítulo "Los acontecimientos, la política y los hombres" una historia de hechos, de oscilaciones breves. Se llega a la distinción dentro del tiempo de la historia, de un tiempo geográfico, un tiempo social y un tiempo individual. Inicia con la guerra en el Mediterráneo de 1551 y termina con la muerte de Felipe II en 1598.

Aunque las tensiones sociales son probablemente tan viejas como la historia, las sociedades del siglo XIX engendradas por la industrialización, muestran una conflictividad más consciente y más explícita en cuanto a su influciencia histórica. Esta renovada y visible conflictividad se articula en torno a un nuevo elemento social: la clase obrera. Es éste un sector de contornos poco precisos, que experimenta una acelerada evolución a lo largo del siglo y que, si bien no abarca, en muchos países, a la mayoría de la población trabajadora, se convierte, sin embargo, en el punto de...