Los Bergantines de Hernan Cortes: El Final de una Obsesion

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Todas las guerras de liberación hunden sus raíces en la primera de todas ellas, la que los españoles libraron, hace exactamente dos siglos, contra los ejércitos de Napoleón. En 1807, el Emperador, embriagado por sus triunfos, lanza sus soldados a la conquista de la Península pensando que será un paseo militar: «Es un juego de niños, esa gente no sabe lo que es un ejército francés; créame, será rápido», declara. Seis años más tarde, 110.000 soldados franceses han encontrado la muerte en España o en Portugal, y la retirada termina ante las murallas de Toulouse. Es todo un...

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...

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