Los Arabes

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«Paz y capitulación» solicitó el general francés Verdier en agosto de 1808 cuando sitió a las tropas aragonesas en Zaragoza. «Guerra y cuchillo» fue la respuesta que recibió por parte de los defensores. La historia convirtió a la ciudad y su defensa en un mito y ejemplo de resistencia frente al emperador Napoleón Bonaparte. Una población sin murallas, sin ejército, sin posibilidades militares, que asombró a toda Europa haciendo frente a varios ejércitos napoleónicos entre 1808 y 1809. Daniel Aquillué, uno de los investigadores más destacados sobre los acontecimientos,...

Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...