Venecia observada

El análisis de un eminente historiador, que se sumerge en los últimos quinientos años de ascenso y caída de las grandes potencias. El eminente historiador Paul Kennedy analiza y describe el auge y la caída de las grandes potencias políticas, económicas y militares a lo largo de los últimos cinco siglos. La nación proyecta su poder militar según sus recursos económicos, pero el alto coste de mantener la supremacía militar la precipita a la decadencia. Las grandes potencias en crisis reaccionan gastando más en defensa y se debilitan desviando recursos productivos. A lo largo de la...

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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 ...