España puesta a prueba, 1976-1996

Por mucho tiempo ha quedado la historia electoral latinoamericana prisionera de una leyenda negra seg n la cual la representaci n pol tica moderna fue fundamentalmente un fracaso. Las causas que se indican Para explicar este fen meno son conocidas: caudillos, guerras civiles, dominaci n externa, cultura heterog nea y corrupci n, entre otras. Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen ense an que esa visi n oscura fue principalmente el resultado de un espejismo cultural.

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

Asserts that during the 19th-20th centuries, French antisemitism had a great influence in Spain, backed by the old Spanish medieval stereotypes about the Jews. The new French antisemitism described the Jew as a secret conspirator who wished to dominate the world and destroy European culture. In Spain, as in the rest of Europe, this image was used (mostly by militant Catholic circles) to rationalize the end of absolutism and the rise of liberalism. Later, the same stereotype was used to explain the Russian Revolution. After World War II, antisemitism in Spain declined, but in the 1990s the...

La autora del bestseller Las hermanas Romanov se basa en este valioso material, en gran parte inédito, para llevarnos hasta la acción: poder ver, sentir y oír la Revolución como les sucedió a un grupo de personas que, de repente, se sintieron atrapados en un "rojo manicomio".