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Este manual aborda la primera parte de la Historia Contemporánea, que puede considerarse un largo siglo XIX. La historia contemporánea solemos iniciarla con los procesos revolucionarios que cambiaron el modelo político, económico y social que regía las sociedades en Occidente, que denominamos del Antiguo Régimen, para diferenciarlas del Nuevo que se inicia entonces, el del liberalismo en todos los órdenes, político, social, económico, cultural. Así pues, "contemporáneo" lo asociamos históricamente al mundo liberal-democrático que se comenzó a gestar en el ámbito atlántico. Por ...

Es éste un libro singular, un atípico manual. Un manual cuyo objeto se encuentra a medio camino de la historia del pensamiento político, la filosofía y la historia cultural: una historia de las ideologías. Unas ideologías que toman, en este manual, la forma de un complejo sistema cultural que engloba todas aquellas formas, materiales o no, que dotan de significados a nuestra realidad. Así, los autores analizan las distintas concepciones que, a la manera de la weltanschauung de Dilthey, han marcado el devenir de la humanidad y sus circunstancias históricas. Estamos, pues, ante una...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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