Civilizaciones perdidas

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El historiador dos veces galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer David McCullough se sumerge en el pasado estadounidense, siguiendo la estela de Tocqueville y los grandes escritores convencidos de los valores de la democracia. Quince espléndidos textos escritos con ocasión de diferentes conmemoraciones públicas dan lugar a una sólida narración, precisa y elegante: desde valores encarnados en figuras casi míticas como Theodore Roosevelt y J. F. Kennedy al modo como John Adams cedió la responsabilidad de la redacción de la Constitución a Jefferson, al que consideraba mejor escritor que él; ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El derecho a imponer tributos y el de acuñar o emitir moneda han sido tradicionalmente dos de las principales prerrogativas de la soberanía política que la autoridad siempre ha tratado de ejercer en régimen de monopolio, de acuerdo con los principios constitucionales que regulan en cada época la obligación a contribuir y la forma de acuñación o emisión de la moneda. Fisco y moneda aparecen estrechamente unidos a lo largo de la Historia y a menudo la política monetaria ha sido puesta al servicio de la política fiscal. Este libro recoge los resultados de recientes investigaciones...