"Fuimos muy peores en vicios"

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

¿Y si Indalecio Prieto se hubiese convertido en presidente del Gobierno en mayo de 1936? ¿Y si España hubiese entrado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial o ETA no hubiese matado a Carrero Blanco? Los momentos más impredecibles, inciertos e inquietantes de la historia contemporánea de España nunca se han visto sometidos a un diagnóstico contrafactual. Sin embargo, este tipo de análisis ofrece una de las formas más estimulantes de reivindicar y revivir la historia. Con inigualable maestría, historiadores de la talla de José Álvarez Junco, Santos Juliá, Javier Tusell, Charles Powell, Pablo ...

El autor, profesor emérito de la universidad de Kyoto, nos muestra un libro que trata, en definitiva, de que el lector conciba a Japón «como una civilización diferente de la suya y no sólo como un país de costumbres exóticas y extrañas».

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