Morir por la patria

The supernatural appeal of Stoker's Dracula continues to hold readers spellbound more than a century after its initial publication. This work by Bajarlía is an important precedent in that concerning the study of vampirism. Through forceful and direct language, he analyzes Stoker's vampire-triad. This essay includes four additional, unpublished chapters that serve as a crucial part to this retelling of a classic.

?A través de las fuentes más novedosas, conocerá un turbio periodo histórico repleto de invasiones, conflictos civiles y guerras, que apasionará a cualquier amante de la historia medieval.? (Web Todoliteratura) ?Breve historia del feudalismo desmonta los viejos tópicos sobre este sistema de gobierno y ayudará al lector a comprender que no sólo fue un período decadente y que campesino no era exactamente sinónimo de esclavo.? (Blog Panoplia de libros) Una obra que arroja luz sobre una de las etapas más desconocidas pero más interesantes de la historia de la humanidad. En las...

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...

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...

Un exhaustivo análisis de la vida cultural e intelectual en Chile en el siglo XIX. Un completo panorama de la vida cultural e intelectual en Chile, que en este periodo, ante la estabilidad política, al amparo de la Constitución de 1833, experimentó un florecimiento de la cultura, las artes, las letras y la educación, todo lo cual cimentó y reforzó la identidad nacional. La colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea es uno de los proyectos editoriales más importantes de las últimas décadas y una aportación original y novedosa a la historiografía sobre América Latina...