Poder y desviaciones

Sobre la base de numerosas investigaciones y publicaciones historiográficas, este libro propone un juicio sintético sobre los criterios fundamentales para afrontar las actuales conmemoraciones y celebraciones del bicentenario. En él se recapitulan algunas hipótesis rectoras sobre aquella fase histórica para intentar plantear con claridad el legado que dejó la independencia y las grandes tareas históricas que los pueblos latinoamericanos tienen que asumir en el presente y en el próximo futuro. «Se trata de un libro de historia, de Historia con mayúscula en la cual el protagonista es...

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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

La Cátedra Casa de Austria, junto a la Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, el Instituto CEU de Humanidades Ángel Ayala y la Fundación Cultural Ángel Herrera Oria, edita el presente libro El advenimiento de la Casa de Austria a los Reinos Hispánicos coincidiendo con el reciente Vº Centenario de la coronación de Carlos I de Habsburgo como Rey de Romanos (1520-2020). La obra, de carácter multidisciplinar, reúne a relevantes especialistas en la materia que desde diferentes perspectivas temáticas –articuladas en cuatro bloques, a saber, Pensamiento, Iglesia y reforma, Renacimiento: arte...