Juan Carlos, un rey con antecedentes

Serge Gruzinski nos ofrece un logrado trabajo de inmersión en algunas de las más relevantes expresiones del sincretismo cultural, con el propósito de trazar la naturaleza de este complejo imaginario vivo en la memoria cultural de nuestro pasado indígena.

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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...

La España del siglo XVIII no llama la atención por su grandeza o su capacidad creadora, sino por su prosperidad. El país no se había metido en grandes aventuras, y solo cabía esperar un tranquilo XIX. Sin embargo, entre 1808 y 1812 una serie de acontecimientos cambian el curso de la historia: un destronamiento coloca en el trono a Fernando VII; España es invadida por Napoleón y José Bonaparte se proclama rey de España; el pueblo se alza, iniciando la Guerra de lndependencia, y logra finalmente expulsar a los franceses; en Cádiz unas Cortes proclaman la primera Constitución...