Historia secreta de la conquista de América

Describes the relationship between twentieth-century Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, discussing the political, social, and cultural upheavals that impacted their relationship.

El racismo es una creación de la cultura y del pensamiento humanos, una forma de conducta y por ello un fenómeno totalmente histórico, susceptible de cambiar y de adaptarse a situaciones concretas. Con independencia de las bases científicas a las que apela –muchas veces inventadas ad hoc–, CHRISTIAN GEULEN nos muestra que su tema fundamental es la lucha por la afirmación, valoración, pervivencia y supremacía de comunidades percibidas como «razas» que necesariamente se ven enfrentadas entre sí. Aunque ya en la Antigüedad y en época medieval hubo grupos excluidos de la sociedad, ...

Una extensa y detallada historia del origen y el desarrollo de los Gulags soviéticos y su herencia hasta la actualidad. El Gulag aparece en la conciencia de occidente en 1977 con la publicación de la obra de Aleksandr Solzhenitsin Archipiélago Gulag. A partir de nuevos estudios, memorias publicadas tras la caída de la URSS y algunos archivos hasta ahora secretos, Anne Applebaum realiza una reconstrucción histórica del origen y la evolución de los campos de concentración soviéticos que devuelve este infausto e inolvidable episodio al centro de la tormentosa historia del convulso siglo ...

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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...