Un país de chiste

A pesar del cada vez más amplio conocimiento que poseemos de nuestra historia moderna, sigue quedando un vacío importante en todo lo relativo a los Paises Bajos durante los Habsburgo españoles. Para terminar con esa ausencia, éste libro, despliega en sus páginas todo un panorama de la vida en el Flandes de los siglos XVI y XVII, buscando familiarizar al lector no especializado con aquel complejo y apasionado mundo.

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

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A 170 años del 3 de febrero de 1852, prestigiosos especialistas revisitan, a la luz de las investigaciones historiográficas más recientes, la batalla de Caseros, el hecho fundante de la Argentina moderna, brindando un panorama enteramente novedoso sobre su carácter de acontecimiento bisagra de nuestra historia. El 3 de febrero de 1852 se enfrentan en la cañada de Morón, en las afueras de Buenos Aires, las tropas de Juan Manuel de Rosas y las de Justo José de Urquiza. Se trata, en total, de alrededor de cincuenta mil hombres. Al tiempo que termina la batalla puede decirse que nace un...