Venecia observada

La cultura liberal basada en principios tales como la libertad, la democracia, el anticlericalismo, el laicismo, la opinión pública, el constitucionalismo, los derechos individuales, el Estado de derecho, entre otros, se definió paulatinamente y contribuyó a la construcción de países como México y España, marcando todo el siglo xix y el xx con puntos claros de encrucijadas y acontecimientos significativos para cada nación. En este libro, quince textos, escritos por los integrantes del Seminario Interdisciplinario de Estudios Comparados México y España, introducen al lector en...

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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...

Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war. Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it.