La belle époque chilena

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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.

Durante el primer cuarto del siglo XIII, Gengis Kan creó el mayor imperio que ha existido sobre la tierra. Lideró a un pueblo conquistador que tan sólo unas décadas antes estaba formado por pequeños clanes nómadas que desconocían la escritura y se desplazaban por un reducido espacio de las estepas asiáticas. Unificados bajo el liderazgo de Gengis Kan los mongoles sometieron a grandes imperios, como el chino y el persa, y a infinidad de pueblos con efectivos militares muy superiores, riquezas ingentes y culturas milenarias. Fueron conquistadores «sin metáfora», es decir, sin...

El profesor Lefebvre hace un análisis objetivo de la Revolución francesa y estudia, además, su repercusión mundial y su influencia en la sociedad contemporánea. La obra se remonta al siglo XIX para examinar desde la era bonapartista y su proyección en Europa hasta su derrota por las fuerzas aliadas.