Historia Monetaria Documental de Puerto Rico (La Moneda Macuquina) Tomo V

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Romanisée avant la Gaule Narbonnaise, l'Espagne a été, après la Sicile et avant la Grèce et l'Orient, le laboratoire de l'impérialisme romain, confronté à la thalassocratie punique. La Bétique, encore appelée " Espagne Ultérieure ", a révélé un très dense tissu urbain : elle illustre le fait que la romanisation est par essence urbanisation. Superposée au vieux fonds ibéro-punique et aux établissements grecs, la romanisation de la Péninsule a créé partout, pour reprendre l'expression de l'empereur Hadrien, des " images reflétées de Rome ". L'ancienneté de l'occupation...

El cánnabis, o cáñamo, siendo una planta, es ilegal en España: su consumo, posesión y compraventa puede ser penado con la cárcel. ¿Es el motivo los riesgos que pueda implicar para la salud? Este ensayo demostrará que ésa no es la auténtica razón de su ilegalidad. ¿Es el cánnabis ilegal porque es adictivo? ¿Por qué es psicoactivo? ¿Por qué es una droga? Una vez más, no, y este ensayo desvelará por qué el cánnabis constituye uno de los más importantes cultivos para el ser humano, y las verdaderas razones que condujeron a su criminalización. Más de doscientos cincuenta...

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...