Toledo y las tres culturas

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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A la muerte de su padre en 1598, Felipe III heredó un gigantesco imperio que inexorablemente exigía ser mantenido por la fuerza de las armas. El nuevo rey, con sus veinte años apenas recién cumplidos, era renuente a esa fatalidad y procuró no emprender nuevas aventuras militares. A pesar de la mejor voluntad real, las inmensas posesiones españolas se vieron una y otra vez atacadas y, en solo diez años, obligaron a sus ejércitos a mantener 162 batallas repartidas por todos los confines terrestres. Hasta ahora, la historiografía convencional solía tratar aquellos encuentros que se...

Mil años después, el drama de los cátaros sigue siendo un misterio lleno de fascinación que en este libro se sitúa en sus auténticas coordenadas históricas.