Regímenes y estados de excepción: América y Europa

El enfoque de Cañón evita la tendencia a la fragmentación que en estas últimas décadas el campo historiográfico argentino ha desarrollado, que distorsionan y fragmentan nuestra comprensión del pasado reciente. Máxime, teniendo en cuenta que esta problemática todavía presenta situaciones traumáticas que la sociedad argentina no tiene suficientemente elaboradas.

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers,...

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What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Jenofonte (c. 430-354 a. C.) es uno de los escritores en prosa más sobresalientes que dio Atenas en su período clásico. Su formación ática (estudió con Sócrates) y su experiencia militar, nacida de su admiración por Esparta, le otorgaron un rico bagaje vital que hizo de él un autor ecléctico, que cultivó el género histórico, la filosofía y el ensayo didáctico.Anábasis, su mejor obra, es el increíble relato en primera persona de la histórica retirada de un ejército griego que se había internado en territorio enemigo hasta Cunaxa, cerca de la antigua Babilonia. Jenofonte fue ...