La Audiencia Borbónica del Reino de Valencia, 1707-1834

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...

C’est en septembre 1936 que le reporter polonais Ksawery Pruszyński arrive dans une Espagne en proie à la guerre civile. Il y est envoyé pour couvrir les événements qui secouent la péninsule Ibérique depuis le coup d’État nationaliste du 17 juillet. Sur place, d’abord à Barcelone secouée par l’anarchie et la terreur, Pruszyński aborde le conflit sous l’angle de l’observateur politique de la révolution rouge, menée par le camp républicain. Puis en suivant le siège de Madrid, il se plonge – en véritable anthropologue – dans le passé et la culture de l’Espagne...

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Esta Historia de España, dirigida por el gran hispanista británico John Lynch, profesor emérito de la Universidad de Londres, y escrita por los mayores especialistas españoles y británicos, quiere ofrecer al lector una exposición narrativa pero rigurosa de nuestra historia, adecuada a las necesidades de hoy y en la que tengan su lugar los grandes hechos políticos y las fuertes personalidades que los han conformado, pero que dé cuenta, también, del conjunto de los hombres y mujeres comunes que hicieron España. Este cuarto volumen, Edad Moderna: El auge del Imperio, 1474-1598, obra de ...