Pasión por la libertad

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Un elemento no desdeñable de las religiones políticas contemporáneas, desde el jacobinismo al nazismo, fue la emulación del pasado clásico. El peligro de esa evocación no ha estado circunscrito a los nacionalismos o al colonialismo. De hecho, en sus orígenes estuvo más bien vinculado con tendencias políticas revolucionarias. Si Mussolini y Hitler estuvieron fascinados con la Roma imperial o la Grecia clásica se debió a la influencia intelectual del siglo XIX. En esto, eran hijos de la Revolución. Pero esta es una verdad incómoda. Imperios de crueldad es un libro lleno de verdades ...

Carmen Bernand ofrece un panorama sint tico y actualizado de las principales civilizaciones ind genas (Mesoam rica, los Andes, la Amazonia), as como los aspectos m s originales de la formaci n de Hispanoam rica en la Colonia. un aporte interesante de esta compilaci n lo constituye la reincorporaci n de la Am rica anglosajona primigenia.