La España contemporánea

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Si fuera necesario dar una definición lo más breve posible del imperialismo, debería decirse que el imperialismo es la fase monopolista del capitalismo. Una definición tal comprendería lo principal, pues, por una parte, el capital financiero es el capital bancario de algunos grandes bancos monopolistas fundido con el capital de los grupos monopolistas de industriales y, por otra, el reparto del mundo es el tránsito de la política colonial, que se expande sin obstáculos en las regiones todavía no apropiadas por ninguna potencia capitalista, a la política colonial de dominación...

El "escritocentrismo" en el que vive el lector contemporáneo le dificulta comprender que la invención de la imprenta, hacia 1440, no acabó de tajo con la antigua práctica de leer en voz alta. La estudiosa extrae de diversas fuentes indicios de las maneras en las que el grueso de la población española se vinculaba con los textos en esa época singular en que la obra capital de Cervantes salía a la luz y cuya divulgación se dio, sin duda, de manera frecuentemente oral. En contraste, nos ofrece un retrato del autor del Quijote leyendo en silencio, preferencia que compartía con su...