Mirrors and Echoes

El soldado español forma parte inseparable del pasado y el presente de España. Es una memoria marcada por los avatares bélicos en los que intervinieron combatientes españoles a lo largo de los siglos: desde los celtíberos que se opusieron a la dominación romana o los legendarios tercios a las actuales Fuerzas Armadas, pasando por los guerreros medievales o los conquistadores de América. Fueron capaces de las mayores proezas y supieron sufrir en los momentos aciagos. Como hijos del pueblo del que proceden han sido un fiel reflejo de las virtudes y defectos del conjunto social a través...

El Diccionario temático (vol. V) reúne en más de 1.700 voces todos aquellos aspectos de nuestra historia que no son tratados en el tomo anterior: instituciones, acontecimientos, épocas, partidos y sindicatos, tratados, ciudades, textos jurídicos, impuestos, guerras y batallas, órdenes religiosas, prensa, empresas, finanzas, movimientos sociales, etcétera.

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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