Galeras de guerra

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

En una síntesis clara y viva, los manuales de la colección INICIACIÓN A LA HISTORIA describen y explican las grandes líneas de la evolución del mundo, desde la Grecia arcaica hasta nuestros días. Precedidos por una bibliografía general y temática que suministra los instrumentos de trabajo indispensables, estos manuales deben poder satisfacer tanto la curiosidad del público culto como las necesidades metodológicas de los estudiantes. Se completan con un fascículo de mapas de cómodo manejo, que ilustran perfectamente los grandes momentos históricos y económicos. El periodo...

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Con motivo del primer centenario del natalicio de Daniel Cosio Villegas y de los 60 anos de una de las obras del que fuera destacado fundador y organizador, La Casa de Espana en Mexico, este libro permite no solo conocer la excelente carrera de un diplomatico sino ademas descubrir su valiente y decidida beligerancia frente a los sucesos violentos que vivio el pueblo espanol en la guerra civil. Haber puesto a salvo a los hombres de ciencia y cultura espanola le ha valido el homenaje que aqui se le brinda.