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La dislocación del vasto virreinato peruano colonial y la construcción, sobre sus ruinas, de la moderna República del Perú constituye uno de los grandes nudos de la historia sudamericana. Este nudo está compuesto por varios hilos: los cambios profundos en la economía global, la influencia de las revoluciones atlánticas, el impacto local de la ruptura del imperio español, las mutaciones políticas que hicieron surgir una república de ciudadanos y tantos otros. Sin embargo, el hilo de la guerra, de la violencia política y de lo militar como factor determinante en el tortuoso proceso...

Una colección de historias fascinantes -y reales- en torno a un deporte que levanta pasiones: El ritmo de la cancha es un viaje alrededor del mundo y a través de la historia Sam Balter se subió en 1936 a un barco en el puerto de Manhattan que le llevó al epicentro de la infamia. El rey Faruq I le robó un sable al Sha de Persia y el reloj a Churchill. Big Don puso a bailar a la parroquia afroamericana de la bahía de San Francisco. En Argentina, el mago Mandrake realizaba sus trucos mientras una generación desaparecía de su tiempo. Imelda Marcos guardaba en su ropero 3.000 pares de...