Historias de España contemporánea

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Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, este libro es una aproximación a cambios y permanencias de la cultura latinoamericana en el siglo XX, en un panorama que va del culto a los héroes a la sociedad del espectáculo, de las migraciones culturales a la influencia de H

La detallada historia de un pueblo, célebre por su arrojo, que nos descubre además su talento como navegantes e ingenieros navales o su valiosa artesanía. Era necesaria una historia sobre los vikingos, una cultura presente en el imaginario popular actual, que se sobrepusiera a los mitos que se han establecido como verdad absoluta, de pueblo beligerante y aguerrido exclusivamente y nos llevara a conocer un poco más: Breve Historia de los Vikingos es esa obra. El libro no sólo se cierra en los aspectos puramente técnicos y cronológicos de los vikingos, sino que también se adentra en la...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...