Història de la Generalitat de Catalunya i dels seus presidents

El libro ofrece una apretada síntesis y de la historia de un país, Inglaterra, en su período de explendor. La economía, la sociedad, la mentalidad y la política británicas y con ello el significado de la revolución industrial, la formación y el desarrollo de la moderna sociedad de clases, las características del imperio británico y la difusión de la ideología imperialista a lo largo del siglo xix.

Las formas en que se representó la barbarie en el mundo occidental, entre la caída de Constantinopla y la Ilustración constituyen la exploración central de este libro. Con horizontes cronológicos y espaciales amplios, la obra analiza las formas en que textos e imágenes utilizaron la barbarie para dar cuenta de experiencias diversas: el conocimiento de pueblos otros, vecinos y distantes, el acercamiento a costumbres ajenas y la experiencia de violencias consideradas radicales, pero también la simplicidad, la inteligencia, el coraje y la solidaridad. Lejos de sugerir que la descripción...

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