Soldiers in a Narrow Land

Este libro recopila un conjunto de estudios que fueron presentados en el marco del XVIIIe Colloque International de Glyptographie, Autour de l ́architecture gothique méditerranéenne, organizado por el Centre International de Recherches Glyptographiques en julio de 2012, con la inestimable colaboración de la Universidad CEU-Cardenal Herrera de Valencia. En él se recogen un conjunto de trabajos que tratan sobre diversos aspectos de los signos lapidarios en Europa, América y Próximo Oriente. El interés por los signos lapidarios es un fenómeno historiográfico que surge temprano en...

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Cesáreo Fernández Duro (Zamora, 1830-Madrid, 1908), marino de profesión, fue, en realidad, un excelente erudito y escritor en un siglo, el XIX, riquísimo en grandes eruditos escritores. En su amplia labor destacan, sobre todo, los libros dedicados a la historia naval, desde su inicial Naufragios de la Armada española (1867) hasta su completísima y aún no superada Historia de la Armada española, nueve volúmenes escritos entre 1895 y 1903, pasando por los curiosísimos volúmenes de Disquisiciones náuticas (1880) o sus ensayos sobre Cervantes marino (1865), Colón y Pinzón (1883), La ...

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...