Breve historia de la Camorra

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation, as men who decimated the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs ...

Tras el colapso del imperio zarista, entre 1917 y 1921 tuvo lugar en Rusia una lucha devastadora: una incompatible alianza blanca de socialistas moderados y monárquicos reaccionarios tenía pocas posibilidades contra el Ejército Rojo de Trotsky y la dictadura comunista de Lenin. El terror engendró el terror, que a su vez condujo a una crueldad aún mayor sobre hombres, mujeres y niños. La lucha se convirtió en una guerra mundial por delegación, ya que Churchill desplegó armamento y tropas del imperio británico, mientras las fuerzas armadas de Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, Japón,...

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

La cultura antigua que más misterio ha suscitado se presenta en este tomo desde todas sus perspectivas analizando el papel geográfico del Nilo, la figura todopoderosa del faraón, la estructura social y política, la visión religiosa del mundo, su cultura, escritura y la vida del pueblo llano.