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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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Esta obra no pretende adentrarse en las consideraciones políticas, económicas o sociales que causaron o se derivaron de la Revolución de 1891. A lo que se invita al lector es a efectuar una revisión de los factores que habrían influido en el desenlace de las dos principales batallas: la de Concón y la de Placilla, acaecidas el 21 y 28 de agosto de 1891, respectivamente. El autor, recurriendo a la teoría estratégica busca explicar por qué fuerzas numéricamente inferiores pudieron imponer —con dramática contundencia— su voluntad sobre un enemigo que era o debía ser superior. En...