1914. Argentina y la Primera Guerra Mundial

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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El vivir cotidiano de la mujer española del Renacimiento, en los distintos papeles que le tocó asumir, desde los más honorables a los más oscuros y dudosos: madres solteras, criadas, conversas, moriscas y gitanas, e incluso las rameras y, por supuesto, las mismas brujas.

En Reforzar los cimientos se reúne la obra ensayística que Ngugi wa Thiong'o ha escrito durante tres décadas, una muestra del poder del pensamiento de un hombre que nunca ha renunciado a su lucha. Durante más de sesenta años, Ngugi wa Thiong'o ha alzado la voz para denunciar la situación del continente africano, para dar a conocer al mundo sus principales retos y reclamar una alternativa a un neocolonialismo injusto, violento y sobrecogedor. Su sueño es alcanzar la completa libertad, así como disfrutar de una igualdad real entre países. A lo largo de estas páginas, sobrevuelan...