Código de Hammurabi

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Son al menos cinco clases de territorios extraños que trata Olivier Marchon en este peculiar libro sobre la geografía humana: los enclavados, los simbólicos, los que se encuentran en disputa, los especiales y los utópicos. Así podemos encontrar a Kowloon Walled City, una ciudad en la que de pronto, en medio de un conflicto ente China y Gran Bretaña, nada es técnicamente ilegal. Sí, nada. Pero también podemos acercarnos a la historia de Roy Bates, que en la década del 60 creó un Principado en una vieja plataforma militar abandonada y se declara a él y a su pareja, príncipe y...

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...

Cornelio Tácito (ca. 56 - ca. 120), cumbre de la historiografía latina, al final de su vida escribió los Anales, obra en la que con incomparable maestría estilística y sin expresar nunca abiertamente su opinión desenmascara sin piedad a los emperadores de la familia Julio-Claudia. Así, las escasas pinceladas sobre Augusto, que empañan la imagen del fundador del Imperio, dejan paso al elaborado retrato del cruel e hipócrita Tiberio. se ha perdido toda la sección correspondiente a Calígula y parte del reinado de Claudio, pero la parte conservada evidencia que este príncipe fue un...