La época de la burguesía

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

"La guerra es un asunto demasiado serio como para dejarlo en manos de los militares." Georges Clemenceau

Con motivo de la publicación de Los mitos de la guerra civil, y a falta, según parece, de mejores argumentos, el pasado de Pío Moa ha sido atacado y desvirtuado profusamente en la prensa. Seguramente este libro será útil para restablecer una visión más equilibrada. Se trata de un testimonio de una época crucial en nuestro pasado aún reciente. Moa fue uno de los dirigentes del PCE(r)-Grapo, que intentó empujar en un sentido revolucionario la historia de España, y esa experiencia queda aquí reflejada con nitidez, una claridad que no encontramos a menudo cuando abordamos las memorias ...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...