Ciudades e Imperios. Una historia universal de la difusión del hecho urbano.

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El enigmático Carlos V, emperador de Europa y el Nuevo Mundo, es la fi gura central en torno a la que gira el monumental estudio de la gran historia del Imperio español que Hugh Thomas comenzó a narrar con gran éxito en su obra El imperio español. Este volumen comienza en 1522 con el regreso de los restos de la expedición de Magallanes y termina con la muerte de Carlos V en 1558. Entre esos años, los españoles conquistan Guatemala, Yucatán, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú y Chile, y controlan ambos lados del poderoso Río de la Plata. Con su habitual estilo colorido y detallista, Thomas...

Adolf Hitler quemaba libros... y leía El Quijote, Robinson Crusoe y Shakespeare. La destructiva ideología del dictador alemán se formó a partir de su biblioteca privada. El autor de esta obra, Timothy Ryback, nos descubre que una interpretación particular del poema de Ibsen, Peer Gynt, moldeó la ambición despiadada del líder nazi, y que admiraba El judío internacional, el tratado antisemita de Henry Ford. Ryback muestra cómo las lecturas de Hitler sobre religión y ciencias ocultas alimentaron su creencia en la providencia divina, o el proceso por el cual las palabras de Nietzsche...

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