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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...

Exposicion y revision de los conceptos tradicionales de cultura, haciendo una reconsideracion de lo que actualmente se entiende por el termino en las distintas disciplinas y areas del conocimiento tanto en lo academico como en lo mundano.

Las memorias colectivas están de plena actualidad, hasta el punto de que la llamada «memoria histórica» ha sido objeto de una reciente y conflictiva ley. También han atraído en los últimos años la atención de historiadores y otros científicos sociales, conscientes de que constituyen un factor de peso en la génesis y evolución de las diversas identidades (políticas, nacionales, religiosas, de clase, de género) y, por lo tanto, en las dinámicas sociopolíticas. En este libro se recogen las ponencias presentadas al VII Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea,...

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