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El desarrollo político del virreinato tuvo en el periodo de 1610 a 1670 sus mayores tensiones. La composición racial y de clase de la sociedad colonial determinó el desenvolvimiento global -económico y político- de ese conflictivo conjunto humano, al hacer de la administración colonial una élite que detentaba el poder de la sociedad entera.

Sirviéndose, como línea argumental, de la historia de los caballos de raza lipizana, Frank Westerman recorre la historia contemporánea de la Europa del siglo XX en este brillante y original ensayo, que se lee como una novela. Siguiendo el árbol genealógico y las vicisitudes de las yeguadas imperiales, el autor-narrador reconstruye la historia de cuatro generaciones de purasangres y de cómo consiguieron sobrevivir a las guerras napoleónicas, la caída del Imperio austrohúngaro, las dos guerras mundiales, los delirantes experimentos para mejorar las razas proyectados por Hitler, Stalin...

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