Confrontación de poderes

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...

"Vapor al norte, tren al sur," aborda un tema hasta ahora no considerado por la historiografia como lo es el estudio y explicacion de los viajes gubernamentales ocurridos en el Chile decimononico. Interpretados como una practica politica promovida desde el poder destinada a captar la adhesion y la simpatia popular, a traves de ellos se analizan los cambios producidos en el sistema politico chileno que, en la epoca de Balmaceda, hicieron posible novedosas formas de representacion del Presidente y la expansion de su base de apoyo, asi como tambien la dilatacion del espacio publico nacional y la ...

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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...

Accompanied by photography and political art, this powerful compilation of testimonies from longtime organizers, artists, housewives, journalists, students, teachers, and others who participated in the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca provides a raw, honest look at the 2006 Oaxaca protests to the political situation in the Mexican state?protests that would become one of the most important social uprisings of the 21st century. Acompañada de fotografías y arte político, esta compilación poderosa de testimonios de organizadores, artistas, amas de casa, periodistas, estudiantes,...