Soldiers in a Narrow Land

La historiografía tradicional, española y europea, ha considerado la Guerra de Granada (1482-1492) como un hecho de naturaleza y alcance exclusivamente hispánicos. Se trataba del último episodio de un proceso ibérico, la « Reconquista », el enfrentamiento secular entre el Islam y la Cristiandad, consustancial al Medievo peninsular. El nacionalismo romántico del siglo XIX y la dictadura de Franco (1939-1975) lo marcaron a fuego en la identidad nacional española. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas se han revisado estos postulados, hasta culminar en una revisión radical. Librado el...

Hace casi nueve siglos, en 1128, este pueblo ribereño del Ebro surge en la historia con luz propia. Boquiñeni, repoblado con gentes del norte aragonés y navarro, fue sede de una encomienda templaria en los siglos XII y XIII que extendió su influencia al otro lado del río por Pradilla y Tauste. Disuelta la Orden del Temple a principios del siglo XIV, sus derechos y propiedades fueron transferidos a la Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Jerusalén. A mediados del siglo XV, sin renunciar a su señorío eminente, los Hospitalarios entregan Boquiñeni a treudo perpetuo a los señores de...

Who has not heard of Cuba? Its beaches, music, food, the beautiful women... and even Fidel Castro? But how many of you know about the misery and repression in which the people of Cuba live? How far does the violation of the civil rights of the people of Cuba go? It's hard to put so many bad things together in a small book. I'll show you some of the most relevant and the simplest things you never think about because you always had it when you need it and when you want it.

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