Ante su identidad. La ciudad hispánica en la Edad Media

Este libro intenta dar a conocer una primera manifestación (poco conocida aún) del carácter «combativo» del historiador Lucien Febvre. Los años 1907-1910, de intensas agitaciones sociales en Francia, vieron, efectivamente, la participación activa y militante en el periódico «Le Socialiste Comtois», de Besançon, del que más tarde, en 1929, juntamente con su amigo Marc Bloch, fundaría los «Annales d’Histoire Economique et Sociale»

Aunque Arabia Saudí es un país rico y poderoso, cuya influencia se extiende a todo el mundo islámico y a Occidente, su sociedad sigue siendo para nosotros cerrada y enigmática. Durante el siglo XX su historia estuvo dominada por el desarrollo de la formación del estado y la construcción de la nación. Tras la I Guerra Mundial y el hundimiento del Imperio Otomano, Ibn Saud libró una larga y ardua campaña para unir desde los cuatro extremos de la península Arábiga a un pueblo tribal enormemente dispar, hasta que en 1932 nació el reino de Arabia Saudí.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...