Madrid, 1939

"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.

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Polonia tuvo el dudoso privilegio de desaparecer del mapa político en 1795, de ser resucitada tras la I Guerra Mundial, de sufrir una aparente aniquilación durante la II Guerra Mundial, de verse reducida a la categoría de país satélite de la Unión Soviética y de aparecer de nuevo en la vanguardia de la resistencia a la dominación soviética en la década de 1980. Pese a ello, la historia de Polonia sigue siendo poco conocida. Esta obra ofrece una visión, primordialmente política, de este turbulento y complejo pasado, desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad, del modo en que ha salido ...

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