Pregúntale a la Espasa

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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Tras el horror nazi, la historia alemana fue sometida a un drástico proceso de revisión. Según la historiografía dominante, las causas de la tragedia recaerían en la propia Alemania, en su militarismo y en sus ambiciones expansionistas, en su marcado autoritarismo, nacionalismo y antisemitismo. Pero ¿pueden imputarse los horrores del nazismo a una "predisposición" alemana o cabría más bien entenderlos como el resultado de una trágica concatenación de acontecimientos? Es esta segunda interpretación la que sostiene este libro. Alejado de posiciones revisionistas o germanófilas,...

Título: “Mal llamada plazoleta de Santo Domingo. Córdoba, Capital – Con menciones de la demolición del Convento Las Catalinas“. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba. Año: mayo de 2015.