Francia y la Revolución Mexicana, 1910-1920, o, La desaparición de una potencia mediana

Los documentos y los testimonios hablan de una fuerte represión en Sanlúcar la Mayor una vez fue tomada la plaza por los “elementos de orden” de los sublevados en 1936. Se ha procedido en la medida de lo posible a identificar las víctimas mortales de dicha represión mediante documentos, fotos, historias y recuerdos de sus familiares y allegados. Este libro quiere ser un homenaje y reconocimiento póstumo a estas víctimas sanluqueñas “silenciadas” por la represión, el miedo, el odio, la vergüenza, el estigma y el olvido.

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

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