L'Amérique du Sud

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...

Primera traducción al castellano de esta obra fundamental de la historiografía romana, que narra los sucesos acaecidos entre los años 353 y 378 de nuestra era, y los intentos de varios emperadores por conseguir la estabilidad de un imperio en decadencia.

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El gigante inquieto nos cuenta la historia de los Estados Unidos en los tiempos, cambiantes y revueltos, que van de la caída de Nixon, en 1974, a la presidencia de G.W. Bush en 2001. Patterson no sólo nos habla aquí de los grandes hitos de la política internacional –el fin de la guerra fría, la revolución iraní, Bosnia, la Guerra del Golfo...- y de las figuras dominantes de la época, como Reagan o Clinton, sino que presta una atención especial, y en esto reside uno de sus rasgos más innovadores y atractivos, a la evolución interior de la sociedad norteamericana: a fenómenos de...