Clandestinos

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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Obra clasica en la historiografia de las ideas politicas, este libro constituye una vasta exploracion de la teoria medieval de la realeza, basada en la concepcion cristocentrica de la monarquia como vicaria establecida por Dios en la Tierra para el gobierno temporal de las almas. A imagen de Cristo, el rey poseia dos cuerpos: natural el uno (sometido a las flaquezas y debilidades consustanciales al ser humano) y politico el otro (invisible, inmortal, infalible y destinado a una continuidad historica sin interrupciones). Pese a sus semejanzas con algunos conceptos paganos, Ernst H. Kantorowicz ...

La extraordinaria historia de cómo 1.000 millones de africanos están superando la caridad, a los déspotas y a los yihadistas para, finalmente, obtener su libertad. Desde hace mucho, los extranjeros han comprendido mal África y han abusado de ella. Alex Perry ha viajado por el continente durante más de una década, entrevistándose con empresarios, señores de la guerra, profesores, narcotraficantes, presidentes y yihadistas, entre otros. Con el Gran Valle del Rift (la grieta geológica que un día acabará partiendo África en dos) como metáfora central, Perry explora la división entre ...