Ruinas de utopía

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...

"Con una cultura intelectual y política de gran envergadura, Fuentes y Lagos se refieren a la actualidad (el desastre de la actualidad) y al futuro. ¿Qué pasa? ¿Qué nos espera? Esas preguntas son el paraguas bajo cuyo amparo conversan dos líderes de opinión, dos personalidades imprescindibles para trazar una perspectiva convincente del mundo en el que vivimos." --P. [4] of cover.

Madrid Oculto es una guía inusual de la capital para aquellos que disponen de un poco de tiempo libre e interés por descubrir los aspectos insólitos y curiosos de Madrid. ¿Cuántas estatuas al "Ángel Caído" hay en Madrid? ¿Una, dos, tres o más? ¿Por qué se les conoce a los madrileños como "gatos"? ¿Es cierto que la casa del Ratoncito Pérez se encuentra cerca de la Puerta del Sol? ¿Dónde se pueden comprar pastas hechas por monjas de clausura en Madrid? ¿De qué manera quiso Felipe II convertir Madrid en un puerto de mar? ¿Qué oscuro secreto guardó el doctor Velasco dentro de ...

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