Breve historia de Cosa Nostra

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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...

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.

Estados Unidos se ha definido siempre como un caso excepcional, un primer experimento político que muchas naciones han imitado antes o después. Su vasta superficie y el aumento constante y acelerado de su población condicionaron desde sus inicios los modos de vida de sus habitantes y configuraron su identidad como coloso demográfico y país inmigrante. El credo de la libertad, la fórmula que los Padres Fundadores encontraron para dotar de unidad y coherencia al país fue, a la larga, exitosa: Estados Unidos es la democracia más longeva del planeta y su escueta Constitución la más...