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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...

Nueva edición actualizada de la obra de referencia de Paul Preston donde se analiza el período de la Segunda República. Desde su primera edición en 1978 este libro es una obra de referencia obligada acerca de la Segunda República al abrir una nueva perspectiva: la interacción de los dos principales partidos de masas de izquierda y de derecha, y cómo los intereses socioeconómicos antagónicos representados por el Partido Socialista Obrero Español y la Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas no se pudieron resolver en la arena parlamentaria y desembocaron en conflictos urbanos...

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