Colonialismo en ruinas

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La historia española, a fuerza de larga y extensa, es como una casa grande y enorme, llena de recovecos, e incluso cuartos enteros, en los que se acumulan hechos -unos gloriosos, otros deleznables, algunos casi increíbles- que han ido cayendo en el olvido con el paso del tiempo. Rincones de historia española es un paseo por algunos de esos recovecos ya por muchos olvidados. Este libro, y conviene recalcarlo, no es un anecdotario al uso, sino una antología de sucesos históricos que van desde incidentes menores a sucesos que en su época tuvieron gran resonancia. Una obra escrita con...

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Empobrecido y exhausto tras cincuenta anos de guerras continuas, el gran imperio espanol negocio, en los ultimos anos del siglo XVI y primeros del XVII, tratados con sus tres enemigos mas poderosos: Inglaterra, Francia y los Paises Bajos. Paul Allen sostiene que los gestos de paz del rey formaban, en realidad, parte de una gran estrategia que permitiria a Espana recuperar su fuerza militar y economica mediante enganosos senuelos presentados a sus adversarios para apartarlos de sus empresas militares.