España contra Cataluña

Los Esclavos de Yucatán es el primero de los reportajes que forman México Bárbaro, en él, Kennet Turner describe la brutal explotación en las haciendas henequeneras de la península del sureste mexicano

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...

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Adolf Hitler quemaba libros... y leía El Quijote, Robinson Crusoe y Shakespeare. La destructiva ideología del dictador alemán se formó a partir de su biblioteca privada. El autor de esta obra, Timothy Ryback, nos descubre que una interpretación particular del poema de Ibsen, Peer Gynt, moldeó la ambición despiadada del líder nazi, y que admiraba El judío internacional, el tratado antisemita de Henry Ford. Ryback muestra cómo las lecturas de Hitler sobre religión y ciencias ocultas alimentaron su creencia en la providencia divina, o el proceso por el cual las palabras de Nietzsche...