La batalla de los sentidos

En el año 1923 el general Primo de Rivera dio un golpe militar e instauró una dictadura que se prolongó siete años. Este período se consideró durante mucho tiempo como un episodio desprovisto de consecuencias para la posterior evolución histórica de España o, a lo sumo, como un mero capítulo introductorio a otros acontecimientos más significativos de nuestra historia. El libro de Ben-Ami no solo ofrece una historia coherente del régimen, particularmente de sus principios doctrinales, de su evolución institucional, de sus políticas sociales y económicas, o de su impacto en la...

La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...