Breve historia de Francisco Franco

José Luis Hernández Garvi nos presenta la cara oculta y menos conocida de la personalidad de Franco, muy alejada de la idea que en su día fue difundida por la propaganda del régimen. Siguiendo el relato que el autor nos plantea, nos sorprenderemos al descubrir cómo el general atribuyó su papel en la Historia a la baraka que le protegía, las causas que motivaron su obsesión por la masonería, el carácter de lucha esotérica entre el bien y el mal que concedió a la guerra fratricida entre españoles, la relación de naturaleza esotérica que el régimen franquista mantuvo con los...

In this historical study, Lara Medina examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the U.S. Catholic Church. Medina weaves archival research and oral interviews into a cohesive narrative that highlights the keen ethnic and political awareness among the movement's leaders and participants. Medina also illuminates the strides made by Las Hermanas in undermining and reorienting the male-dominated structure of both the Catholic ministry and the Chicano civil rights movement. By...

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

En la Antigüedad, Gibraltar fue tomado como faro natural y bisagra entre los dos grandes mares. Desde la fundación de su ciudad, hace catorce siglos, por su dominio se han enfrentado las potencias de cada época. Hace trescientos años que la bandera britán

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