Franco, el ascenso al poder de un dictador

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 ...

"Si existe alguna cuidad en el mundo que refleje de manera ejemplar la confluencia de las tres culturas principales del mundo mediterráneo medieval, ésta es sin duda Toledo. El período de convivencia cultural y religiosa de musulmanes, judíos y cristianos en la ciudad del Tajo se inicia a principios del siglo VIII con la invasión islámica, y se extiende hasta finales del siglo XV con la expulsión de los judíos por los Reyes Católicos. Este libro pretende analizar el significado histórico de esta síntesis cultural desarrollada en la Toledo medieval"--P. 4.

Este libro ofrece una panorámica del exilio que padeció el pueblo vasco tras la Guerra Civil. El volumen, escrito en homenaje al profesor José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta, incluye una entrevista con él y quince colaboraciones de especialistas del ámbito nacional e internacional. Los ensayos recogen la pluralidad del exilio vasco al cubrir tanto a intelectuales nacionalistas vascos (Aguirre, Onaindía, Oñatibia, Zaitegui, Azpiazu, el grupo Antzerki, Monzón, Ametzaga, Martín de Ugalde) como a republicanos (Ugarte, López Miarnau, Mansilla, Álvarez Arregui, Guilarte, Champourcin, Elío,...

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