La Europa remodelada 1848-1878

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...

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Por el bicentenario de la Independencia Americana, la Universidad de Sevilla, organizó una exposición para dar a conocer la enorme riqueza de sus fondos americanistas. 192 títulos de impresos y manuscritos americanos y de temática americanista, junto a 45 documentos gráficos del Archivo General de Indias, concurren en una extraordinaria muestra.

Carlos V, la novela histórica que presentamos traducida por vez primera al español del título alemán Kart V (1935), es también la primera obra publicada en lengua española de Gerhart Ellert, seudónimo masculino de la autora austriaca nacida en Wolsberg (Corintia) Gertrud Schmirger (1900-1975). Ellert escribió a lo largo de su vida treinta novelas históricas, entre otras Attila, Wallenstein, Nach der Sühne, Paulus aus Tarsos, Alexander der Grobe, algunos dramas de carácter histórico, como Der Doge Foscari, Die schweigenden Jarhunderte, Das Urchristentum im zwielicht der geschichte, ...