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Ce volume reprend quelques-uns des articles que Joseph Pérez a publiés au cours d'une carrière consacrée à l'étude de la civilisation de l'Espagne et de l'Amérique latine. L'Espagne s'affirme comme puissance mondiale dans le dernier tiers du XVe siècle ; elle est alors confrontée à deux événements qui auront des conséquences considérables dans son évolution. D'une part, la découverte et la conquête d'un nouveau monde posent des problèmes philosophiques, politiques et moraux : de quel droit un peuple qui se croit supérieur peut-il imposer sa tutelle à un peuple qu'il juge...

Un ensayo sobre la irresponsabilidad y la condición moral de la intelectualidad francesa. Tras la Liberación, los intelectuales franceses regresaron al frente de la Historia. Pero las ideas políticas y las pasiones de estos intelectuales acabaron resultando polémicas. En Pasado imperfecto, Judt analiza los conflictos más controvertidos de esta comunidad intelectual: cómo responder a la promesa y a la traición del comunismo, y cómo mantener un compromiso con esas ideas radicales frente a la hipocresía de la Unión Soviética de Stalin, de los nuevos estados comunistas de la Europa del ...

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...