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Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the 1909 air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. The book analyzes a multitude of speakers in the aviation discourse ranging from Aby Warburg and Gabriele D'Annunzio, over the Futurists and Ernst Jünger to the Fascists proper. Esposito shows how the flyer came to symbolize not only New Man and the new eternal time the Fascists were...

La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.

Desde hace más de medio siglo, ningún autor cualificado había acometido una reflexión seria sobre los orígenes de la religión. Esta labor emprendida por Rappaport convirte este interesante, polémico y bien ideado estudio de un clásico de la antropología, los estudios de historia de las religiones y, en general, de las humanidades.

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