Manuel Tuñón de Lara, maestro de historiadores

En un mundo como el actual los historiadores necesitan un enfoque global; pero eso no se consigue con una simple extensión del campo examinado en las viejas historias de estados y naciones, sino que requiere métodos nuevos, adecuados al estudio de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Sebastian Conrad examina aquí el desarrollo de las distintas visiones de la historia mundial, desde Herodoto o Ibn Jaldun hasta Toynbee, McNeill o Wallerstein, y las respuestas recientes —historia comparada, transnacional, postcolonial, de la globalización...— para proponernos los fundamentos de un...

Simpson refleja la contradictoria fascinacion y el asombro que produce en los extranjeros el pasado y el presente de Mexico, lo mismo en el terreno de la referencia abstracta que en el de la confrontacion con una realidad cotidiana en la que la historia reaparece siempre con renovada vigencia. Tal vez por eso el autor nos dice que su libro es una invitacion al lector a hacer con el un remunerador viaje al pasado de Mexico.

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