El señor Demos. Caminando por la historia

Creado a finales del siglo xix desde una óptica eurocéntrica, Oriente Medio es un término que hoy en día sirve para denominar un amplio territorio que se extiende desde Marruecos a Irán. Una región estratégica por la presencia de petróleo, convulsionada por múltiples factores de crisis cuyo volumen ha recorrido la historia política desde la expedición de Napoleón a Egipto y el encuentro con la modernidad, a la reforma del imperio otomano y la caída de los califatos, el proceso de descolonización, la guerra del Sinaí de 1967, la revolución iraní, la presencia de los talibanes...

"ƒrase una vez en Ovnilandia" ofrece una historia del desarrollo de la ufolog'a en Francia, desde sus or'genes en los a-os cincuenta hasta nuestros d'as. Concretamente, se trata de una historia de las hip-tesis, especulaciones y debates te-ricos que han marcado la saga ovn'stica francesa, y que le han dado un sello particular y caracter'stico, tan distinto del que viene siempre asociado a la ufolog'a estadounidense, con sus platillos volantes estrellados y sus conspiraciones infinitas. Este segundo volumen, hom-nimo de un art'culo de Jean Giraud, de 1977, trata de la evoluci-n de la...

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