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El águila y el dragón. Desmesura europea y mundialización en el siglo xvi es una comparación histórica de la conquista de México y China de parte de los españoles y portugueses respectivamente. Mediante el análisis de formas de gobierno, infraestructura, geografía y sociedad, Gruzinski enfrenta a las dos civilizaciones que tuvieron contacto con la maquinaria expansionista de la península ibérica y mediante esta comparación muestra la reacción de cada civilización frente a ella. El autor analiza cómo el águila azteca se arrodilló y el dragón chino resistió ante los europeos...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En la fase más decisiva de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, después de sufrir los primeros reveses militares en la Unión Soviética, la Alemania de Hitler, dejando de lado sus prejuicios racistas en favor del pragmatismo geoestratégico, intentó instrumentalizar el Islam en su beneficio. A partir de ese momento, los musulmanes de territorios tan dispares como el norte de África, los Balcanes o el Cáucaso, donde combatían las tropas del Tercer Reich, se convirtieron en objetivo de la propaganda nazi. Para los dirigentes nazis más entusiastas de este proyecto, con Heinrich Himmler a la...