Las Cruzadas

Esta obra es una aproximación a la realidad social y económica de la España cristiana medieval, la cual se nos presenta como un cambiante y complejo espacio en expansión. Los autores de este documentado trabajo han sido conscientes de que bajo las generalizadoras expresiones de “economía” y “sociedad” es posible abordar los temas más variados. Por eso el criterio de selección informativa ha sido estricto, y se ha articulado alrededor de tres problemas fundamentales. El primero es el que se refiere al marco territorial en el que se desenvuelve el elemento humano, la realidad...

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Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the 1909 air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. The book analyzes a multitude of speakers in the aviation discourse ranging from Aby Warburg and Gabriele D'Annunzio, over the Futurists and Ernst Jünger to the Fascists proper. Esposito shows how the flyer came to symbolize not only New Man and the new eternal time the Fascists were...

Els articles inclosos en aquest volum reflecteixen moltes de les adreces i contextos en què estan evolucionant les històries contemporànies d'Espanya actuals. En aquest sentit, el conjunt de les contribucions emergeixen d'un rerefons comú associat a la història social i incorporen, en major o menor mesura, els corrents internacionals associats a l'anomenat «gir lingüístic» i la nova història cultural. Unes innovacions que són especialment pertinents per als historiadors de l'Espanya contemporània perquè suposen un repte directe a la coherència i legitimitat de les grans...

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...