Cortes, monarquía, ciudades

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.

Siete estudios originales abordan aspectos emblemáticos de los mil días de la Unidad Popular, e intentan recuperar el contrapunto entre fiesta y drama que tan profundamente marcó el proyecto liderado por Salvador Allende.

El propósito del presente trabajo es indagar cómo, a raíz de la conquista musulmana de la monarquía visigoda (711-718), varios grupos aristocráticos de la cornisa Cantábrica, vinculados al mundo indígena pero con fuertes conexiones también con el extinto reino godo, se reorganizaron bajo una idea de autoridad cristiana en Asturias. Al mismo tiempo que el centro y sur de la Península se asimilaban al mundo islámico después de la invasión árabe, este reducto insumiso de elementos hispano-visigodos se consolidaba en la estrecha franja atlántica del Cantábrico. Nos enfocamos en una ...