La vida en la Edad Media

Un magnífico documento sobre el arte y los monumentos de la civilización y la cultura chinas. Presenta algunos ejemplos más tempranos e imaginativos del arte y la artesanía chinos. Cubre ampliamente muchos de los lugares históricos más espectaculares de China. China es la más antigua de las grandes civilizaciones de la humanidad. Ha producido un enorme legado de arte y arquitectura, gran parte del cual es único y distintivo. Cualquier personade Occidente que visite la Gran Muralla, el Ejército de Terracota del primer emperador o la Ciudad Prohibida de Beijing quedará impresionada...

Adolf Hitler quemaba libros... y leía El Quijote, Robinson Crusoe y Shakespeare. La destructiva ideología del dictador alemán se formó a partir de su biblioteca privada. El autor de esta obra, Timothy Ryback, nos descubre que una interpretación particular del poema de Ibsen, Peer Gynt, moldeó la ambición despiadada del líder nazi, y que admiraba El judío internacional, el tratado antisemita de Henry Ford. Ryback muestra cómo las lecturas de Hitler sobre religión y ciencias ocultas alimentaron su creencia en la providencia divina, o el proceso por el cual las palabras de Nietzsche...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...