¿Qué fue el nazismo? Breve análisis del imperio de la barbarie

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

Este ensayo indaga en profundidad y documentadamente en los valores y las formas de sociabilidad de la élite chilena en su época de apogeo oligárquico: las décadas en torno al Centenario. En esos años marcados por el contraste entre la opulencia de esa minoría y la miseria mayoritaria, explora los ámbitos en donde se fraguaba el poder nacional y se redefinía la articulación entre tradición y modernidad. Con el talento narrativo que imprime a toda su obra, el historiador Manuel Vicuña penetra en el mundo íntimo de la sociedad aristocrática, exponiendo el significado político de...