El Círculo de Bellas Artes

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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...

Como una rueda La ciudad de Babel es la noria, que representa muchas cosas: la luz, la sombra y el eterno retorno, como lo pensó Nietzsche y, mi héroe, o mejor, mi antihéroe, Emiliano Isaías Gamboa, una brizna insignificante en el engranaje de esa máquina, que prefigura el tiempo con sus fantasmas y sus ilusiones de un mundo que simboliza el paraíso y el infierno terrenal de una época histórica que, curiosamente, parece haber sido borrada del mapa mental junto con sus habitantes.

Este volumen es de utilidad para toda persona que quiera repasar la historia de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y los primeros años del siglo XXI. Se concentra en algunos temas fundamentales que permiten comprender los acontecimientos políticos, económicos, climáticos y bélicos que dibujaron nuestro presente y que están determinando nuestro futuro. De fácil y ágil lectura, el texto se desenvuelve como un fluido viaje a través de la historia reciente de Europa, Norteamérica, Asia y África, y revisa los más importantes hitos históricos de nuestro tiempo, como la emergencia de la...