España contra Napoleón

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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Los tres ensayos que integran este volumen analizan en profundidad la trayectoria de una tendencia historiográfica -el revisionismo histórico- cuyo discurso ha influido en los distintos movimientos políticos sudamericanos a lo largo de todo el siglo XX. El historiador más destacado de la argentina reflexiona críticamente sobre la corriente historiográfica que supo postular a Juan Manuel de Rosas como la figura heroica nacional opuesta a los intereses oligárquicos y que se hizo escuchar a partir del derrocamiento del gobierno de Hipólito Yrigoyen en 1930. Esta visión de la historia,...

Compilación que reúne cuatro ensayos que analizan desde distintos enfoques (económico, político, social y cultural), los procesos y acontecimientos más importantes que tuvieron lugar en el año de 1917, los cuales dieron pie a la promulgación y entrada en vigor de la Constitución Política actual.