La Ciudad de los ángeles caídos

¿Realmente crees conocer la historia del tan cercano siglo XX? La historia del siglo XX contada a través de las ideas producidas en los márgenes de la ciencia, las artes y la cultura. Antes de 1900, la historia parecía seguir una línea clara, con innovaciones como la máquina de vapor, la agricultura o la electricidad. El siglo XX, por el contrario, dio lugar al entrelazamiento cuántico, al cubismo, a la relatividad, a la psicodelia, al posmodernismo, a la teoría del caos y a la batalla del Somme. Con el fin de comenzar a darle sentido a esta endiablada maraña de ideas extrañas,...

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La correspondencia mantenida entre varias familias asentadas en un espacio que incluye tierra de Cameros, °lava, Guip_zcoa, Vizcaya, Santander y Navarra se convierte en el motor de la historia de un reducido e influyente grupo vinculado a la expansi n de las ideas ilustradas por el norte peninsular. Este libro refleja el papel de los miembros de este grupo familiar al calor de la transformaci n que se produce desde finales del s. XVIII. Individuo y grupo conforman una imagen peculiar de las ¥reglas de conducta empleadas en el perÃodo analizado. El control de la informaci n y el manejo de...