Aldea 1936

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We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.

Una extraordinaria investigación llevada a cabo por el naturalista francés que expone, con lujo de detalles la historia del pueblo araucano Durante sus últimos tres años de vida, entre 1870 y 1873, Claudio Gay trabajó en un proyecto monumental: una detallada investigación sobre los araucanos. Esta ambiciosa empresa que analiza la vida material, cultural y espiritual del pueblo mapuche, llevó al naturalista francés #que antes había clasificado gran parte de la flora y fauna del país# a acumular un centenar de notas y estudios descriptivos que, tras su muerte, quedaron archivados en...