La Ciudad de los ángeles caídos

El gran hispanista Bartolomé Bennassar nos ofrece en este libro una imagen poco corriente de un período crucial de la historia de España. Hidalgos, santos, pícaros, bufones y reyes desfilan por un escenario donde coexisten ascetismo y placeres, orgullo aristocrático e ideales evangélicos. Un mundo teñido de sombras y contrastes, rebosante de audacia y de tensiones creadoras, capaz de dar a luz nuevas ideas y formas artísticas y literarias soberbias.

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This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

Creado en 1944 por el jurista Raphael Lemkin, el término «genocidio» designa un tipo de crimen masivo por el que un grupo es destruido intencionadamente, de forma total o parcial, en nombre de criterios nacionales, étnicos, raciales o religiosos. El siglo xx, que empezó con la aniquilación de la población armenia y terminó con el exterminio de los tutsis en Ruanda y la “limpieza étnica” en la antigua Yugoslavia, dejando entre medias las grandes masacres de la era estaliniana, la tragedia de la Shoa y el exterminio de una parte importante de la población camboyana, bien puede...