Argentina en el mundo (1930-1960)

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...

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González Prada fue uno de los más influyentes pensadores peruanos de inicios de fines del siglo XIX e inicios del siglo XX. En esta antología se recogen los ensayos más combativos. En ellos trabaja los más variados temas; desde lo filosófico y religioso a lo político y estético. Su prosa, aunque de combate, es refinada y acusa ya las influencias del modernismo en la transformación del idioma español. En el "Discurso del Politeama" (1888) despliega su infatigable activismo haciéndose eco del grito: "¡Los viejos a la tumba; los jóvenes a la obra!", que se convirtió en el lema de...

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...