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Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand...

Pocas historias son tan complejas como la de la civilización india. La vasta extensión del territorio en el que se ha desarrollado, su antigüedad y las constantes interacciones con otras culturas hacen que sea un auténtico desafío enhebrar un relato que refleje toda la riqueza y diversidad de su pasado. Sintetizar más de cuatro mil años de historia de una región en la que han llegado a existir simultáneamente cuarenta dinastías es una tarea que se antoja ingente. Ese es precisamente el reto en este libro, dónde la historiadora Eva Borreguero, profesora de la Universidad Complutense ...

Hardcover edition comprising the books "Crónicas de Pichilemu" ("Chronicles of Pichilemu") and "Camino al progreso" ("On the road to progress").