Al Servicio de su Majestad: Cien Anos de Espionaje Britanico = To Your Majesty Service

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...

Esta historia de la Piratería en la Antigüedad es un clásico en su género, y en palabras de Luis Alberto de Cuenca, autor del prólogo, «el más importante ensayo que se ha llevado a cabo sobre la piratería en esta etapa (?) se lee con facilidad y con agrado, desde el prefacio hasta el último capítulo -dedicado a la piratería en época imperial romana-, al que siguen más de ochenta páginas de notas acribilladas de exquisita erudición». Las condiciones geográficas y económicas de los mares Mediterráneo y Egeo fueron durante muchos siglos particularmente favorables para el...

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A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...