La Guerra Fría

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

“Miserias del poder” pretende contribuir a que el debate público sobre el franquismo incluya en su agenda no sólo el importantísimo problema de la represión sino también el del funcionamiento, e intereses, del poder o las actitudes políticas de sus apoyos sociales. Entender críticamente, y en toda su amplitud, la dictadura nos permitirá valorar su lugar en nuestra historia contemporánea y comprender las razones de su «olvido».

Estudio, a partir de un manuscrito de 1605, de las Alpujarras sometidas a la jurisdicción real en los aspectos económicos, rentas reales, pósitos y propios de los concejos, jurisdicción civil y criminal, beneficios eclesiásticos, compra de lugares por particulares y propuestas de mejora para los términos alpujarreños, en cuanto a la población, número de lugares de cada taha y de vecinos en el momentos de la rebelión morisca, y lugares, barrios y vecinos con que se repoblaron después de 1571 y en 1605.