El Madrid de Baroja

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand...

A country with a lot of mistery, enigma, symbols and metaphors to unscramble. A study that goes back to the first Mexican tribes until today. Theories that even contemplate an origin from out of this world. Stories about Atlantis and Mu.

Ahí está, sonriente y feliz mientras le aclaman sus tropas. Don Juan de Austria, un jovencísimo general de apenas 24 años acaba de convertirse en el héroe del mundo occidental al aplastar a la armada turca en la batalla de Lepanto. Es una victoria por la que suspira toda Europa, cercada en el Mediterráneo por los hábiles piratas del Islam y que ve cómo los ejércitos del imperio otomano llegan a las puertas mismas de Viena.Bartolomé Bennassar, uno de los mejores conocedores de la historia moderna de España, dibuja una biografía apasionante de este hijo natural de Carlos V al que la ...

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