Convento Viejo en el corazón

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A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX empiezan a conjugarse los factores que desencadenarán un agitado proceso de cambios y revoluciones en un viejo y enorme país de tradición milenaria, aislado del exterior, regido por una monarquía imperial inoperante sometida al creciente influjo colonial europeo. Los textos seleccionados por Julia Morena abarcan la historia última de China: desde el paso de la monarquía a la república en 1911, la constitución de la República Popular en 1949, que con la muerte de Mao en 1976 inicia un nuevo período, hasta los sucesos de Tien Anmen en 1989...

Este libro traza la génesis de los poemas homéricos y nos invita a releerlos reponiendo estos episodios en la historia de la Grecia antigua. Muestra, particularmente, que la sociedad y la civilización material descritas en la Ilíada y en la Odisea son casi las mismas, mientras que la función de los dioses y la ideología real divergen profundamente.

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.