La Inglaterra victoriana

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Este manual aborda la primera parte de la Historia Contemporánea, que puede considerarse un largo siglo XIX. La historia contemporánea solemos iniciarla con los procesos revolucionarios que cambiaron el modelo político, económico y social que regía las sociedades en Occidente, que denominamos del Antiguo Régimen, para diferenciarlas del Nuevo que se inicia entonces, el del liberalismo en todos los órdenes, político, social, económico, cultural. Así pues, "contemporáneo" lo asociamos históricamente al mundo liberal-democrático que se comenzó a gestar en el ámbito atlántico. Por ...

Del autor de Astrofísica para gente con prisa llega esta exploración de la milenaria complicidad entre los observadores del cielo y los combatientes de guerra En esta fascinante incursión en el antiquísimo vínculo entre la ciencia y el poder militar, Neil DeGrasse Tyson y Avis Lang examinan cómo se han empleado los métodos y herramientas de la astrofísica para la guerra. "Los puntos de coincidencia son fuertes [...] porque a los astrofísicos y a las fuerzas armadas les importan muchas de las mismas cosas: la detección multiespectral, la fluctuación, el rastreo, el escaneo, el...

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