Merlín

La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

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Las políticas de la memoria se han convertido en un nuevo campo de batalla político y cultural. Aunque esto muestra la vitalidad de las democracias contemporáneas, al mismo tiempo invita a una reflexión crítica sobre el modo como la memoria histórica está alimentando la polarización y dificultando los grandes consensos sociales. Al discutir hechos históricos de un pasado que no pasa en países como China, Turquía, Estados Unidos, España, Irlanda del Norte, Colombia, Sudáfrica, Rusia, Francia, Japón, Chile y Alemania, el autor pone de presente que existen múltiples formas de...