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Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

Esta obra se ocupa de la reconstrucción e identificación del amplio patrimonio librario de Diego de Anaya (1357-1437), eclesiástico y consejero real que ocupó sucesivamente los obispados de Tuy, Orense, Salamanca y Cuenca y llegó a ser arzobispo de Sevilla. La mayor parte de su biblioteca, en torno a 400 títulos, se conserva hoy en día en la Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca, proveniente del Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé, del que Anaya fue fundador. En su reconstrucción se han manejado fuentes inéditas estudiadas por primera vez de forma exhaustiva, entre ...

El verdugo (1963) es una de las obras cumbre del cine español y una película básica para comprender el arranque económico del desarrollismo franquista, sustentado en la polarización de la industria pesada y el desarrollo del turismo de costa. La imagen desenfadada y de “progreso” que Franco quiere dar de cara al exterior, contrasta con las miserias de un estado dictatorial excesivamente burocratizado que aplica la pena de muerte y no puede evitar los movimientos migratorios desde las zonas rurales más desfavorecidas a las ciudades más pujantes y a países extranjeros como Alemania, ...

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...