El desafío de la cultura moderna

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...

En este segundo tomo analizamos el modo cómo los campesinos rompen las relaciones de subordinación, que aparecían como relaciones de lealtad con sus patrones. Una larga historia de humillaciones y ofensas explota. Por cierto, era el Estado quien imprimía el ritmo de reforma, pero esta se produjo en medio de un inimaginable proceso de movilizaciones. Fueron, sin duda, los cinco años de mayor gravitación y profundidad en la historia moderna del país. El golpe de Estado del 1973 es incomprensible sin la Reforma Agraria y la revuelta campesina que la acompañó y que la hizo posible. Nada...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Gli undici saggi qui raccolti ripropongono i frutti ancora attuali di un incontro tenuto a Pisa nel 1998 tra studiosi spagnoli, italiani e francesi sui rapporti tra gli Stati italiani e la Spagna durante il periodo della "preponderanza" di quest'ultima. Tema classico, che à ̈ stato considerato in questo caso in un'ottica interdisciplinare e alla luce degli scambi di civiltà (politici, culturali, letterari) che si sono stabiliti fra i diversi poli nel corso del Cinque-Seicento. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali