El emperador y los ríos. Religión, ingeniería y política en el Imperio Romano

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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...

Las memorias colectivas están de plena actualidad, hasta el punto de que la llamada «memoria histórica» ha sido objeto de una reciente y conflictiva ley. También han atraído en los últimos años la atención de historiadores y otros científicos sociales, conscientes de que constituyen un factor de peso en la génesis y evolución de las diversas identidades (políticas, nacionales, religiosas, de clase, de género) y, por lo tanto, en las dinámicas sociopolíticas. En este libro se recogen las ponencias presentadas al VII Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea,...

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