Historia de la literatura V

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El 27 de febrero de 1767 Carlos III firmó el Decreto de expulsión de la Compañia de Jesús de todos sus dominios. Con el fin de eliminar a ese cuerpo peligroso el Conde de Aranda puso en marcha inmediatamente una complicada maquinaria logística, primero en la España peninsular y más tarde en los territorios ultramarinos de la Monarquía.Este libro analiza el proceso de extrañamiento y las repercusiones que tal acontecimiento provocó en la vida política, económica, religiosa y cultural de la más lejana de las provincias españolas, la de Filipinas.En las Islas, la salida de los...

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...

El texto recoge, a lo largo de quince temas, y atendiendo a un criterio cronológico y temático, los acontecimientos políticos, socio.económicos, religiosos-culturales y las relaciones internacionales que jalonan la Baja Edad Moderna en España, desde 1665, año en que se produce el fin del reinado de felipe IV, hasta 1808, con la caída del Antiguo Régimen.