El gran libro de los mapas

The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements in Guatemala and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform.

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

Guardia personal del rey, cuerpo de élite de la caballería del ejército que luchaba contra Granada, mercenarios al servicio de la corona castellana o eventuales espía... Todas estas definiciones pueden asociarse a los hombres cuya historia se escribe en este volumen, pero en ellas falta el elemento clave de su excepcionalidad: eran musulmanes.

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