Las mariposas de Madrid. Los narradores italianos y la guerra civil española

Estudio de la evolución de la sociedad hispana, desde el siglo XVI hasta el XVIII; considerando aspectos como la demografía, el reparto de la población, la caracterización de los diversos grupos sociales, el mundo rural, el papel de la familia, así como los grupos marginados.

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...

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Este libro recoge seis artículos sobre la Revolución escritos por François Furet para la revista Débat. Pero también puede ser leído como una introducción a su trabajo de historiador en el que, permanentemente atento a las preocupaciones del presente, no trabajó sóo sobre la Revolución Francesa, sino que abordó todos los problemas actuales. Así, a lo largo de sus páginas, el autor enjuicia la postura de la izquierda frente a las revoluciones, el vínculo entre revolución y terrorismo, las contradicciones de la Revolución Francesa y su influencia en la política actual, la...