El conquistador conquistado

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

La obra fundamental sobre la histórica civilización más antigua del Mediterráneo Occidental conocida como Tarteso. Dotado de una extraordinaria riqueza en metales y estratégicamente ubicado entre las rutas comerciales del Atlántico y el Mediterráneo en el momento de la expansión colonial griega y fenicia, Tarteso floreció entre los siglos VIII y VI a. C., prolongando su cultura en el entorno del Guadina hasta comienzos del siglo IV a.C. Se convirtió en una cultura urbana, alfabetizada y sofisticada en el suroeste de Iberia, y se vio enriquecida por el contacto con comerciantes del...

Este trabajo pretende arrojar luz sobre un aspecto de nuestra historia tan controvertido como poco estudiado. A través del análisis del caso cántabro, el autor elabora una reflexión del conflicto clerical-anticlerical que, en ningún modo, quiere perder de vista las implicaciones nacionales, e incluso europeas, del mismo.

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