From Iberia to Diaspora

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Hasta la fecha, los historiadores extranjeros sólo habían utilizado fuentes inglesas o francesas para explicar la resistencia española a la invasión napoleónica. Por vez primera, Charles Esdaile, se ha basado en archivos españoles, algunos de ellos nunca consultados, ha revisado minuciosamente los estudios locales sobre la guerra de Independencia (Badajoz, Zaragoz,...) y ha tenido muy encuenta la presna española de la época y las biografías de algunos de los principales guerrilleros. El resultado es una visión totalmente nueva de la resistencia española. Charles Esdaile es uno de...

Pedro José Guiteras sacó a la luz hechos olvidados, que sus antecesores creyeron infecundos o sobradamente significativos; llevó los estudios históricos de Cuba más allá de la simple crónica externa de acontecimientos a menudo intrascendentes, o como ahora podría decirse con Spengler, ahistóricos o faltos de historicidad, y por primera vez en la historiografía cubana se enlazó íntimamente el desarrollo de nuestro pueblo con el resto de la vida mundial. Fernando Ortiz

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...