La República alucinada

Las cualidades de un Asa Briggs que está hoy en la cima de su prestigio aparecen claramente en esta que es, sin duda, su obra maestra: una ambiciosa visión de conjunto de la historia de Europa en los dos siglos de la época contemporánea, desde el inicio de la Revolución francesa hasta la caída de los regímenes de la Europa oriental y la consolidación de la Unión Europea con el tratado de Maastricht.

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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...

Este libro consiste en la reunión, en un haz todavía heterogéneo, de un conjunto de fugaces percepciones históricas sobre el bicentenario chileno, expuestas sin otro orden que la secuencia cronológica en que fueron demandadas por un sector u otro de la comunidad nacional, y comunicadas a la misma por su autor en la forma específica en que se dio para cada ocasión. La ‘demanda’, en todo caso, implicó e implica la existencia de una inquietud ciudadana que necesitaba y aún necesita desarrollarse como proceso socializado de estudio, información y reflexión, normalmente, con...