Gladiadores

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...

Carrera: Revoluci?n Chilena Y Campa?as De La Independencia, Con Un Ap?ndice Sobre La Jenealoj?a De La Familia Del Jeneral.

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Las memorias de Arturo García Igual son un relato que evoca los acontecimientos vividos y las personas conocidas que más trascendencia han tenido en su vida o en la de su época, trasladándonos con sus recuerdos a tiempos, espacios y personajes vividos y conocidos. Entre ellos, destacan los que explican sus orígenes en la Valencia de principios del siglo xx, los que dan cuenta de la trágica experiencia que marcó su vida, la Guerra Civil y la derrota republicana, y los que permiten reconstruir su consolidación como empresario en el México del «milagro económico». La publicación de...