Historia de la vida cotidiana en México

Presents essays that analyze the art teachings in Mexico City from the 18th to 20th century, particularly in 4 prestigious institutions: the Academia de San Carlos, the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (now the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildelfonso), the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Secretaría de Educación Pública. The outcome is the present anthological volume.

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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.

El historiador Gabriel Salazar Vergara expone una síntesis de los principales aspectos macroeconómicos y microeconómicos del período así como los hitos que marcaron la modernización del país: Sectores económicos, comercio, desarrollo científico y tecnológico, comunicaciones, transporte, etc. La colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea es uno de los proyectos editoriales más importantes de las últimas décadas y una aportación original y novedosa a la historiografía sobre América Latina en la que han participado más de 400 historiadores de diversos países....

A mas de sesenta anos del falso final de la Guerra Civil, el presente libro repasa la literatura y la cinematografia mas significativas sobre la guerra y analiza algunos de los mitos y distorsiones mas comunes aun vigentes: su inevitabilidad, la leyenda de Badajoz, la gesta del Alcazar, Madrid como capital de la gloria y del dolor, el papel de sus intelectuales, la confusa cuestion de la memoria y el olvido, etc.