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La llamada Transicion espanola (1973-1986) no es solamente un rico anecdotario, un conjunto de secretos politicos mas o menos sorprendentes y una galeria de personajes providenciales. Este libro la ve como un complejo y colectivo &la" aprendizaje de la libertad que arrancaba de atras, por supuesto, y que en muy pocos anos cambio la faz del pais. Recordando sus hechos y nombres pero, sobre todo, interpretando tendencias y sentidos, los dos autores de este libro se proponen una vision de conjunto del periodo: Santos Julia ha estudiado la configuracion de una nueva conciencia politica e...

"Rómulo histórico» constituye un ensayo de interpretación de la personalidad histórica de Rómulo Betancourt en la génesis e instauración de la democracia moderna en Venezuela. El propósito expreso de su autor no es el de componer una biografía personal, sino el de contribuir al conocimiento de la personalidad sociopolítica de Rómulo Betancourt, cuya significación –sostiene– será mejor apreciada al enfocársela en el largo período histórico. Germán Carrera Damas se propuso poner de relieve el rasgo que considera más expresivo de la personalidad histórica de Betancourt, a ...

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...