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 This essay includes four additional, unpublished chapters that serve as a crucial part to this retelling of a classic.

Durante la segunda mitad del siglo x, el califato de Córdoba se convirtió en la mayor potencia política y cultural de Occidente. Lugar de visita de embajadas y comerciantes llegados desde todos los confines del Mediterráneo, al-Andalus conoció un gran esplendor. El cénit de esa supremacía se produjo en tiempos del califa al-Ḥakam II (961-976), famoso por poseer una de las mayores bibliotecas de la época, por sus obras de ampliación de la mezquita de Córdoba, y por la suntuosidad de la ciudad palatina en la que vivió, Madīnat al-Zahrāʼ, situada a pocos kilómetros de la...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

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La renovada mirada al mundo moderno nos ha permitido conocer en mayor profundidad y en nuevas facetas las experiencias vividas por las sociedades asentadas sobre el antiguo espacio de las monarquías ibéricas durante el período de las independencias y el surgimiento de los eventuales estados y naciones. Un espacio convulso, de experimentación, combinatorias y reelaboraciones conceptuales, institucionales y de prácticas que se desplegó con inusitada energía y creatividad para refundar nuevas comunidades políticas. Ese período vivió preso entre la épica patriota de una historia de...