Viajes en el Mediterráneo antiguo

Una clase magistral sobre el arte del liderazgo por el mayor experto mundial en pensamiento estratégico. ¿Qué lecciones de estrategia y liderazgo podemos extraer de la derrota de la Armada Invencible, de la actuación de Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial o de las astutas decisiones de Pericles en la Grecia antigua? John Lewis Gaddis cuenta las más sorprendentes maniobras, fallidas o atinadas, desde el mundo clásico hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y profundiza en el pensamiento estratégico a partir de figuras como Heródoto, César Augusto, San Agustín, Maquiavelo, Felipe II,...

Las referencias a los reyes Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza en la historiografía suelen ser tan escasas como previsibles. Los pocos estudios que reparan en los monarcas, en su labor política y en su vida, comienzan todavía hoy lamentado su desconocimiento y terminan con lo más divulgado: la locura de un rey que no pudo vivir una vez muerta su mujer. El reinado de Fernando VI parece una "sala de espera" hasta que la llegada de Carlos III iniciase la serie de las grandes reformas del Despotismo Ilustrado. Sin embargo, la contabilidad del reinado presenta muchos aspectos positivos. No...

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