La sociedad vitoriana en el siglo XVIII

En este libro, el gran historiador contemporáneo recorre toda la historia de la ciudad de Santiago, desde su fundación hasta nuestros días, en un estilo narrativo de notable nitidez. Su relato comienza con el entorno condicionante de la cuenca geográfica que asienta la ciudad, donde 10.000 años a.c se instalaron los primeros cazadores y recolectores. Fundada en 1541 por Pedro de Valdivia, luego de expediciones previas con gran hostilidad de los indios, quienes durante cien años habían soportado dos invasiones incas y dos españolas. En 1640 un grave terremoto obliga a refundar la...

Tercer volumen de la trilogía Marcados a Fuego que pasa revista a la violencia en la historia argentina.

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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

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