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In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach--across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change--a time when Spain learned to rule the world. It was also a time of great turbulence and transition, which fueled an exceptional flourishing of art and ...

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Con una minuciosidad gil y divertida, Peter Conrad nos pasea por la filmograf a del "mago del suspense"; combina la apreciaci n anal tica del erudito con la exaltaci n del fascinado Para preguntarse por las grandes cuestiones que plantea el cine de ese estrafalario director de cine brit nico que a n hoy en d a nos reserva sorpresas. un libro que intenta demostrar que la grandeza de Hitchcock reside en haber visto los extra os monstruos que anidan bajo la delgada capa de nuestra civilizaci n.

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