La historia a través del cine

En este libro se cuenta la historia de algunas mujeres espléndidas, famosas por el poder que lograron acumular, casi siempre después de convertirse en amantes de hombres importantes. Ángela Vallvey ha explorado sus vidas con una mezcla de atrevida curiosidad biográfica, documentación rigurosa e imaginación narrativa, recreando incluso sus conversaciones privadas, sus íntimos deseos, sus aspiraciones más inconfesables… De Cleopatra a Elena Sanz, de Madame de Pompadour a Corinna, el lector contemporáneo las mirará con admiración, simpatía, lástima o estupor, siempre consciente de ...

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"Vapor al norte, tren al sur," aborda un tema hasta ahora no considerado por la historiografia como lo es el estudio y explicacion de los viajes gubernamentales ocurridos en el Chile decimononico. Interpretados como una practica politica promovida desde el poder destinada a captar la adhesion y la simpatia popular, a traves de ellos se analizan los cambios producidos en el sistema politico chileno que, en la epoca de Balmaceda, hicieron posible novedosas formas de representacion del Presidente y la expansion de su base de apoyo, asi como tambien la dilatacion del espacio publico nacional y la ...