La vida política. Argentina (1880-1930)

Aunque durante el franquismo mujeres pioneras intentaron hacerse oír para reivindicar sus derechos, la década de los años 70 fue escenario de un movimiento feminista numeroso, plural y muy activo. Sus reivindicaciones han formado parte de la agenda de modernización del país y, sin embargo, este movimiento no ha tenido apenas espacio en la abundantísima historiografía de la transición española. Teniendo a la derecha franquista enfrente y al lado una izquierda para la que la igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres no era la prioridad, no fue fácil luchar por estos derechos. Este...

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Retórica, historia y polémica is a study of Bartolomé de las Casas' writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and "politics of discourse" to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the most pervasive antihegemonic perspective of the conquest. The project focuses principally on Las Casas' most ambitious text, Historia de las Indias (1522-1527), although examples are also drawn from De unico...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...