Cartas a Franco de los españoles de a pie (1936-1945)

Franco tuvo dos vidas. Una fue la real: la del hombre que vivió entre 1892 y 1975. La otra fue la del Caudillo: el conjunto de mitos creado en torno al dictador poco después de comenzar la Guerra Civil y que, al menos en parte, perduran aún hoy. Esta biografía describe cómo esta vida del Caudillo creada a partir de 1936 acabó fundiéndose con, y en muchos aspectos ocultando a, la verdadera de Franco. Pero el libro no solo narra el nacimiento de los mitos del Caudillo, quiénes estuvieron detrás de ellos o su evolución sino, quizás más importante aún, cómo fueron percibidos, usados ...

Nacidos originalmente como parte de la liturgia funeraria en Etruria, los combates de gladiadores fueron adquiriendo progresivamente a partir del siglo III a.C. una complejidad y una importancia social dentro del mundo romano que acabaron haciendo de ellos mucho más que un simple espectáculo. En esta breve introducción organizada en torno a tres grandes apartados -los gladiadores, los espectáculos y su relación con el entorno-, M. Amparo Mateo Donet traza un panorama tan completo como riguroso de los particulares y de la evolución histórica de los juegos gladiatorios, de su...

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"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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