Madrid en guerra

Valle Inclán lo explicó en los versos modernistas de La marquesa Rosalinda. A diferencia de Francia, aquí no volaban libremente tras los boscajes, ni furtivos besos del Trianón, ni las ideas de Voltaire y Rousseau: con los ramajes de los boscajes, aquí hacía hogueras la Inquisición. El atraso económico, a pesar del imperio, y la intolerancia, crearon condiciones extremas para que las luces arraigaran en España y no obstante el esfuerzo de reforma del absolutismo ilustrado hizo posible esa tarea casi heroica. Una minoría intelectual encontró una estructura de oportunidad en la...

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 ...

Se reunen aquí un conjunto de informaciones necesarias para el historiador y útiles para el lector general: una cronología sistematica de nuestra historia, más de 200 gráficos y estadísticas de economía y sociedad, 200 mapas que reflejan acontecimientos, divisiones políticas, etc., relaciones detalladas de las distintas instituciones políticas y sus componentes, y la correspondencia entre los distintos calendarios utilizados en nuestra historia y los pesos y medidas.

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