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Desde la más remota antigüedad, los chinos han escrito textos eróticos que no tienen nada que envidiar al famoso Kamasutra hindú, que data en torno al siglo VI, ni al Breviario árabe del amor, escrito en el siglo XVI. Obras elaboradas mucho después que el ars erotica chino. Nacido en torno a la fertilidad y la longevidad vital, y asociado a la unión con el cosmos a través del Yin y el Yang, en China se desarrolló toda una serie de “artes de la alcoba” que se transmitieron durante siglos a través de textos eróticos e ilustraciones que tenían un carácter pedagógico. El ascenso ...

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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...

Este manual aborda la primera parte de la Historia Contemporánea, que puede considerarse un largo siglo XIX. La historia contemporánea solemos iniciarla con los procesos revolucionarios que cambiaron el modelo político, económico y social que regía las sociedades en Occidente, que denominamos del Antiguo Régimen, para diferenciarlas del Nuevo que se inicia entonces, el del liberalismo en todos los órdenes, político, social, económico, cultural. Así pues, "contemporáneo" lo asociamos históricamente al mundo liberal-democrático que se comenzó a gestar en el ámbito atlántico. Por ...