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Entre los tópicos acerca del origen de la guerra civil española ninguno hay más repetido, y menos fundamentado, que el que sostiene que todo comenzó como respuesta a la escalada revolucionaria que se produjo durante los meses que siguieron al triunfo electoral del Frente Popular, en febrero de 1936. Una escalada en que, según este tópico, asumen un papel principal las invasiones de tierras por parte de los campesinos extremeños. Este libro de Francisco Espinosa explora por primera vez de manera seria y documentada lo que sucedió en aquellos meses de 1936 y demuestra la falsedad de la...

En esta obra se repasa la historia más reciente de Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela, que presentan como rasgo común su pertenencia al Mundo Andino. Este hecho diferencial genera una serie de coincidencias y divergencias a las cuales se intenta

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...