Comunicación y poder en Asia oriental

"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

En cuestión de bribones, este es un país con conciencia de exceso de corruptos desde tiempos inmemoriales. Reseñar los bribones que ha habido en este país y no desembocar en una larga enciclopedia es una tarea complicada, por su gran abundancia. Ese ha sido el riesgo, incluso, al acotar en este libro un periodo histórico concreto: el que va desde los inicios del reinado de Carlos IV de Borbón al de su descendiente Juan Carlos I; es decir, el periodo que se conoce en historiografía como Época Contemporánea, los últimos doscientos años y pico. Aquí no están todos los que son, pero, ...

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