La cara oculta de China

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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...

¿Dónde estaban los personajes de este libro el 19 de julio de 1979? Anastasio Somoza Debayle, el dictador; Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, el hijo; y Dinorah Sampson, la amante, se encontraban en altamar, en su lujoso yate rumbo a Las Bahamas debido a que el subsecretario de Estado, Warren Christopher anuló la invitación para que el derrocado presidente fijara su residencia en Estados Unidos.El capitán Justiniano Pérez, el guardia, estaba esa mañana en el aeropuerto Las Mercedes (hoy Augusto C. Sandino), en medio de una multitud histérica --guardias y somocistas-- esperando un vuelo...

En este libro, Arnoldo Momigliano aborda el fenómeno histórico-cultural que tuvo lugar durante los siglos IV a I a. C., al entrar en profunda interacción cinco pueblos: griegos, romanos, judíos, celtas e iranos. El autor intenta dilucidar cuáles fueron y en qué condiciones se dieron las relaciones culturales entre estos pueblos y cómo ocurrió un hecho inusitado: la circulación internacional de las ideas.