La humanidad frente a la barbarie

The area of Amalthea, better known as Central College, was platted by Timothy Lee in 1816. Situated three miles southeast of Westerville, Central College was built along Big Walnut Creek. A college known as the Blendon Institute was formed in 1832. In 1842, the institute was given to the Presbyterian church to form the Central College of Ohio. However, due to financial struggles, the school--later known as Central College Academy--closed in 1894. The Ohio School for the Deaf Alumni Association purchased the defunct school property and created the Ohio Home for the Aged and Infirm Deaf; it was ...

23 de enero de 1516, Fernando el Católico fallecía en Madrigalejo. Moría como rey de Aragón, Valencia, Sicilia, Nápoles y Navarra, conde de Barcelona y gobernador del reino de Castilla —títulos que dejaba a su hija Juana, reina ya de Castilla—. Fernando había sido un militar de éxito, un amante de la buena vida, un político maquiavélico, un hábil cazador, un conspirador sibilino y un padre que buscó con las alianzas matrimoniales aumentar su poder. Pero por encima de todo fue el primer monarca que ciño todas las coronas que constituyen la España de hoy. En el quinto...

Esta colección de ensayos de Carmen Mc Evoy busca rescatar del olvido a personajes que intervinieron en la defición del Estado-Nación durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX, participando en las pugnas y en las polémicas destinadas a renovar las estructuras institucionales en clave republicana y liberal. A partir de sus biografías la autora recrea el clima de la época que les tocó vivir, subrayando los dilemas que enfrentaron y la naturaleza experimental, incierta, de la acción política, que emprendieron a fin de constituir una comunidad política basada en principios republicanos y ...

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