El Prado y el Buen Retiro

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Desde un punto de vista único e inusual, prestigiosos historiadores militares internacionales en su totalidad las contiendas que han dado forma al mundo moderno desde 1900. Cientos de ilustraciones, fotografías, mapas, reconstrucciones de batallas, citas... hacen de la obra el estudio más exhaustivo sobre la guerra contemporánea publicado hasta el momento.

Antes de la Revolución de 1789, Francia conoció dos siglos convulsos. Este largo periodo de transformaciones tiene como hilo conductor el salón literario, donde la mujer es la figura central y la conversación, el eje civilizador. Benedetta Craveri hace en este libro, tan riguroso y sugerente como ameno y erudito, un periplo literario apasionante, repleto de voces, de anécdotas de la más variada índole, de dichos memorables, de retratos, de descripciones de ambientes y lugares, y reconstruye de este modo un mundo en el que términos como sociabilidad, ingenio o gracia expresan un ideal...