Egipto en la época de las pirámides

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En el primer libro de la colección se compilan una serie de artículos que abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, algunos de los enigmas que aquella geografía especulativa planteó a los expedicionarios, que buscaron resolverlos con sus sorprendentes viajes, en los que se conjugaban los intereses, ambiciones, ilusiones, imaginarios, mentiras y conocimientos que con tanto cuidado luego fueron registrados en los maravillosos mapas producidos a partir del siglo XVI.

Biografía de la reina Isabel II (1830-1904), que heredó el trono a los tres años y comenzó a gobernar a los trece tras una cruenta guerra civil. A los dieciséis la casaron con un hombre al que odiaba y que no dejó nunca de intrigar contra ella. Tenía treinta y ocho años cuando fue destronada. La primera reina constitucional española ha pasado a la historia como una personalidad profundamente contradictoria. Cruel y generosa, ignorante y ladina, perversa e ingenua, sexualmente depravada y fanáticamente religiosa, incapaz de comprender ni de apreciar la cultura liberal. Su irregular...