El Hombre Gris (L'homme Gris)

Based on approx. 350 lawsuits from the Sala de Vizcaya at the Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid, between 1500 and 1750.

In this book 16 specialists in different fields of Cuban studies give intelligent answers to the outcomes of the Castro government during these past 50 years. It is the history of the Cuban Revolution in the areas of: politics, economics, religion, society, art, Bay of Pigs, international relations, labor relations, law, architecture, electrical energy and telecommunications, medicine and education. Authors included are: Eren Cordova, Jose Manuel Hernandez, Jorge A. Sanguinetty, Jorge F. Perez Lopez, Pablo F. Carreno, Manuel Cereijo, Alberto Sanchez Bustamante, Juan Clark, Virgilio Beato,...

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Nos dice Boorstin que la cultura occidental ha conocido tres grandes épocas de investigación. En la primera el ser humano buscó la respuesta a sus interrogantes más vitales en un dios que le hablaba desde arriba (Moisés, Isaías, o el autor del libro de Job), o en el pensamiento filosófico que nacía de su reflexión interior (Sócrates, Platón, Aristóteles). Vino luego una segunda época de búsqueda basada en la experiencia (Bacon, Descartes) y en el liberalismo (Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson). Finalmente, la tercera, asentada en los pilares de las ciencias sociales, alumbró hombres...