Alfonso X y su época

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En este libro se explora cómo surgieron y pasaron al acervo popular los errores de interpretación acerca de la historia de la conquista española de América. Se ofrece, asimismo, una nueva crónica de las actividades de los conquistadores y exploradores más célebres, entre los que se cuentan Colón, Cortés y Pizarro. A partir de una amplia selección de fuentes, el historiador Matthew Restall destaca siete mitos esenciales, en los cuales revela el origen de las inexactitudes y refuta las falacias implícitas. Este texto atractivo y bien documentado muestra, por ejemplo, que los...

Escrito por una historiadora, este no es sin embargo un libro de historia sobre la España de los sesenta. Tampoco una autobiografía ni una suerte de memoria personal de aquellos años, tras los negros cuarenta y los grises cincuenta, de tránsito incierto hacia la modernidad y el bienestar. Pero sí un retazo de memoria compartida de aquella España de "ni fu ni fa" que "sin haber razones de quererla por sus méritos, tampoco las daba para abominar de ella". Una memoria dictada y evocada desde los recuerdos de infancia de una baby boomer, aunque capaz de interpelar a aquellos que no...