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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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La Historia elemental de Cuba para uso de las escuelas primarias, tuvo más de diez ediciones entre 1928 y 1964. La presente selección abarca varios capítulos del texto original. A cargo de Ramiro Guerra, uno de los más connotados historiadores cubanos, esta obra relata los avatares de la historia nacional de Cuba desde los tiempos previos a la conquista hasta el siglo XX.

El presente volumen recoge un conjunto importante de trabajos de investigación originales, que iluminan aspectos desconocidos hasta ahora de la historia del periodismo local -fundamentalmente ABC, pero también otros medios de comunicación coetáneos- y de la visión de la ciudad a lo largo de estos últimos decenios, tal como ha sido retratada en las páginas del periódico.