Hacienda Santa María Buenavista

Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was created during 1940s. It's a key indicator of economic policy, and it's considered as rule to measure the significance of a country's economy, and it's a common base for other important indicators, such as fiscal deficit and the human development index (HDI). Diane Coyle reminds us that this instrument is not supposed to turn into a fetish; on the contrary, since it possesses a history that explains its consolidation, along with a structure and strategies that show the conception of economy from those who postulate it. Nonetheless, the GDP is currently one ...

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La docena de trabajos que componen el presente volumen se ciñen al periodo 1750-1850, o sea al que va de la época de la Ilustración a la del Romanticismo, y desvelan una de las peculiaridades de la investigación en un sector del hispanismo universitario francés: la dedicación al estudio de la "civilización". El denominador común de ese mosaico original de artículos se halla en el escrutinio de la dialéctica propia del fluir irregular del "tiempo de la Historia en España", que articula continuidades, evoluciones progressivas y rupturas.