Breve historia del racismo

El libro es un análisis comparativo ente literatura -Baroja- y realidad histórica -la ciudad de Madrid en el paso del siglo XIX al XX-. Resulta ser por ello un estudio de las condiciones materiales en las que se desarrollaba la vida cotidiana de las capas populares y los grupos marginados de la ciudad en esas décadas.

Tomo I de Chile en la Colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea. Dirigido por Joaquín Fermandois y coordinado por Ricardo Couyoumdjian. La independencia de Chile fue el resultado de un complejo proceso que, doscientos años después, sigue suscitando el debate entre los historiadores y el interés entre los amantes de la historia. Conocer las características de este periodo, las causas de la emancipación y sus repercusiones en el escenario internacional es el objetivo de este volumen, el primero de una serie de cinco sobre la historia contemporánea chilena. Los sucesos de...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

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