La política de una rebelión

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...

Hasta la fecha se ha estudiado a Sagasta como figura principal de la España del siglo XIX. Y queda fuera de duda el papel político decisivo que el estadista riojano desempeñó en períodos claves de nuestra historia contemporánea, desde el reinado de Isabel II hasta la Restauración, pasando por el Sexenio democrático. Sin embargo, no se había contextualizado la acción de Sagasta en el marco más amplio del liberalismo europeo de la época donde cobra todo su sentido. Este libro, de la mano de reconocidos especialistas de diferentes países, aporta una nueva visión al fenómeno del...

Recoge más de treinta de las mejores entradas de la serie noir Akáshicos, incluyendo historias de Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver y T. Jefferson Parker.

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...