La profecia de Orion

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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Bartolomé Clavero, catedrático de Historia del derecho de la Universidad de Sevilla, nos ofrece un texto que es, a la vez, un descargo de conciencia personal, la recuperación de la memoria histórica de una familia que prosperó a la sombra de la dictadura y, sobre todo, una elocuente denuncia, no sólo de los crímenes franquistas, sino, sobre todo, de la desmemoria posterior, empeñada en hacernos olvidar que "buena parte de la clase pudiente hoy en España debe su posición a la sangre y al despojo", como consecuencia de haberse alzado "con la victoria en la guerra y el botín en la...

Le recueil d'articles présentés dans ce volume regroupe les communications prononcées lors du Colloque International organisé en Mai 1982 par le Centre d'Etudes Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines du XIXe siècle de l'Université de Lille III sur le thème: L'homme et l'espace dans la littérature, les arts et l'histoire en Espagne et en Amérique latine au XIXe siècle Le sujet proposé se profilait en quelque sorte comme une roue d'artifice dont l'homme aurait été l'axe ou le centre, et l'espace la surface rayonnante. Mais cet énoncé comportait aussi une zone floue, voire ambiguë: le ...