Historia de España

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En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX, las grandes tiendas lideran un significativo cambio en las estrategias de venta del comercio de Santiago, el que se va modernizando al ritmo de las profundas transformaciones que experimenta la sociedad de la época. Los comerciantes emplean profusamente la publicidad y organizan variados eventos con el fin de atraer público hasta sus establecimientos. Sin embargo, la verdadera revolución es descubrir el potencial de la mujer como consumidora y de la clase media como mercado, realidad que da origen al curioso concepto de la manifestación del lujo....

La batalla del 5 de mayo de 1862, la Revolución de Ayutla, la heroica defensa de Acultzingo, la guerra de Reforma y la intervención estadounidense, entre otros heroicos episodios militares, tienen en común a un personaje oculto en los oscuros rincones de la historia oficial, a quien este libro busca hacer algo de justicia: Mariano Escobedo. "Me resulta entrañable, su apariencia de héroe despistado, general desgarbado y triste, niño crecido; colocado por la Historia en la vorágine de una guerra imperial a la que percibe a través de sus ojos miopes. Es un general que no lo parece. [?]...