Breve historia de la Primera Guerra Mundial

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world - its institutions, its priorities, its entertainment, its physics, its sexual morality, its food, its politics, even its religion. The ways in which we live our rich and varied lives correspond - almost eerily so - to the ways in which the Greeks and Romans lived theirs. Whether we are eating and drinking, bathing or exercising or making love, pondering, admiring or enquiring, our habits of thought and action, our...

Una exhaustiva investigación sobre uno de los sucesos más abominables acaecidos en la historia de Cuba, que provocó la muerte de más de un centenar de personas y dejó incapacitadas de por vida a otras tantas, muestra este libro. Entrevistas a familiares de los fallecidos, a algunos sobrevivientes y a otros testigos, van conformando esta obra que se divide en tres capítulos, desde la explosión del vapor francés La Coubre; la indagación sobre el sangriento suceso; los responsables del crimen y sus móviles; amplio testimonio gráfico y diversos anexos que dan fe del indescriptible...