Estrategias de guerra

A finales del XIX, el francés Monet con su cuadro “Soleil levant, Impresión” abre la puerta a un nuevo estilo que va a dominar Europa durante más de medio siglo. En esta primera exposición impresionista (1874) acompañan a Manet otros autores que van a dirigir este estilo, como Renoir o Degas. Esta nueva corriente pictórica pretende reproducir la apariencia meramente transitoria de los objetos destacada por la luz y los reflejos de los cuerpos en el mismo momento en que son contemplados. El estilo se extenderá luego por toda Europa con gran éxito y marcará una etapa incuestionable ...

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

El Diccionario temático (vol. V) reúne en más de 1.700 voces todos aquellos aspectos de nuestra historia que no son tratados en el tomo anterior: instituciones, acontecimientos, épocas, partidos y sindicatos, tratados, ciudades, textos jurídicos, impuestos, guerras y batallas, órdenes religiosas, prensa, empresas, finanzas, movimientos sociales, etcétera.