La presidencia ficticia

¿Cómo abarcar en una biografía una personalidad y una actividad política tan complejas como las de Winston Churchill? Richard Toye, profesor de la Universidad de Exeter, ha tenido la idea de coordinar para ello a un equipo de especialistas que han investigado diversos aspectos de su vida, entre los cuales figuran historiadores de tanto relieve como Jeremy Black, Richard Overy o Chris Wrigley, para que cada uno se ocupe del período de la vida de Churchill, o del aspecto de su actividad política, que mejor conozca. Tenemos así una sucesión de capítulos que, comenzando con sus primeros...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

La historia de España está repleta de personajes con excepcionales cualidades físicas e intelectuales que les proporcionaron un talento por encima del resto. Fuertes, valientes, resistentes, inteligentes… «Superhéroes», al fin y al cabo. César Cervera rescata, con excepcional agudeza y detalle, el mito y la realidad de aquellos hombres y mujeres que trufaron los campos de batalla de Europa con extraordinarias gestas. Desde Diego García de Paredes al Duque de Osuna, pasando por Julián Romero, Juan del Águila o la Monja Alférez, esta obra pretende ser un recuerdo objetivo y...

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