Repúblicas en armas

Rigurosa investigación, basada en documentación inédita o poco utilizada, sobre la época que media entre la creación de la Provincia marítima de Santander (1799) y la Provincia de Santander (1833), complejo proceso político y administrativo iniciado por el Estado liberal para garantizar su presencia en la nueva provincia. Su estudio se aborda desde dos perspectivas: la local, con el enfrentamiento entre los intereses de la hidalguía rural y la burguesía urbana, deseosa por delimitar un espacio en el que iba a ser la principal protagonista, y la nacional, con el análisis de los...

Más de 700 imágenes procedentes de los archivos de Magnum-Contraste, Roger Viollet y Giunti, realizadas por maestros de la fotografía como Robert Capa o Henri Cartier-Bresson ilustran este magnífico recorrido por la más devastadora guerra “total” que invo

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

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