Episodios y Personajes dela Historia del Regimiento 11

Aquella “injusticia” que sintetiza el final de Simón Bolívar: “murió pobre y con camisa prestada”, es tan conocida como insospechada y oculta su faceta de empresario y defensor a ultranza de la propiedad privada. A través de la correspondencia personal del Libertador, el doctor Antonio Herrera-Vaillant devela a un hombre con extraordinarias habilidades para los negocios y tenaz protector del patrimonio familiar. El autor se apoya en documentos históricos para demostrar que Bolívar supo incrementar su fortuna y la de su familia llevando ventas y rentas estratégicas para la...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En esta excelente muestra de su erudición, Edgar Morin ensaya una antropología de la barbarie que recorre toda la historia occidental. En este libro el autor hace referencia a los dos grandes totalitarismos que dominaron el siglo XX –el hitlerismo y el estalinismo-, pero también a los desastres de la era poscolonial, emergentes del imperialismo europeo. Dedica un espacio importante a los grupos y personas que se opusieron a las explosiones de barbarie –y que califica de “antídotos culturales”- y propone categorías filosóficas que ayudan a identificar la irrupción constante del...