El Escorial: historia, arte, ciencia y matemáticas

Entre enero y julio de 1919, tras el final de la primera guerra mundial, dirigentes del mundo entero llegaron a París para organizar una paz duradera. En esa Conferencia de Paz, los "tres grandes" –el presidente estadounidense Woodrow Wilson, más los primeros ministros de Inglaterra y Francia, David Lloyd George y Georges Clemenceau– se enfrentaban a una tarea gigantesca: poner en pie una Europa en ruinas, obtener de Alemania unas gravosas reparaciones de guerra, detener el avance de la reciente Revolución rusa y gestionar el inestable equilibrio de poderes tras la desaparición de los ...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

No cabe duda de que el marxismo produjo un cambio profundo en la forma de entender la relación entre individuo y sociedad. Asimismo, el materialismo histórico, o método marxista de entender la Historia, transformó la forma de interpretar los acontecimientos y procesos históricos. Este cambio de paradigma alcanzó a los estudios sobre la Antigüedad, resignificando temas clásicos de estudio e introduciendo nuevos enfoques que revitalizaron la disciplina hasta el último tercio del siglo XX. Fruto de ello son, por ejemplo, la aparición de revistas como Past and Present en 1952, la...