Des Indes occidentales à l’Amérique Latine. Volume 1

Conspiración, intriga, corrupción, soborno, venganza... la historia de la República está sembrada de episodios que ponen de manifiesto un hecho fundamental: la lucha por la conquista del poder es un elemento decisivo. Tom Holland nos traslada a la época más apasionante de Roma, donde figuras de la talla de Cicerón o César conspiran para hacerse con el poder de la única superpotencia de la Tierra.

Legisladores y leyes penales, delincuentes comunes y crímenes sensacionales, documentos oficiales, alegatos jurídicos, obras especializadas, revistas, nota roja, novelas, corridos, reportajes fotográficos e ilustraciones de Posada, castigos ejemplares, jurados y jueces, son algunas de las instituciones, textos y personajes que aparecen en las páginas de la presente obra. Se trata de un trabajo que puede enmarcarse dentro de la historia del derecho y de las instituciones; pero además, puesto que acerca al lector a variados lenguajes escritos y gráficos, puede insertarse en el ámbito de...

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...