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"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...

La Revolución Francesa no fue solamente una transformación violenta, sino que fue a la vez una “revolución cultural” y produjo la ruptura que conduciría a la moderna libertad política. El autor aborda este gran tema de la historia europea de forma desacostumbrada. Partiendo de la Francia rural -en donde el autor nos muestra la “cotidianeidad” de la Revolución y los motivos que impulsaron a la “gente normal”- Reichardt conduce al lector a las ciudades de provincias, para llegar, finalmente, a París. Por último, traspasa las fronteras de Francia y expone la dimensión...

El presente libro de Jeremy Black es un estudio temático (las ciudades, los conflictos bélicos, la política institucional, las artes, etc.) del siglo XVIII, desde el 1700 hasta la Revolución francesa. Una exploración de los elementos fundamentales que configuran las sociedades europeas en esos casi cien años. Un compendio así trata de sintetizar las formas de vida, el desarrollo económico y los conflictos dinásticos confrontando distintos países y culturas.