Armas Para La República: La Aventura del Mar Cantábrico

Les célébrations du bicentenaire de la guerre d'Indépendance ont eu un écho considérable en Espagne et ont suscité une révision profonde de la lecture du long conflit qui embrasa la Péninsule de 1808 à 1814. Cette guerre apparaît désormais dans toute sa complexité : guerre patriotique de résistance à l'occupant français, mais aussi guerre civile et révolution. La mémoire et les mythes qu'elle a suscités ont joué un rôle de tout premier plan dans la construction de la nation espagnole par le libéralisme. Ce dernier apparaît désormais comme fondamentalement pluriel et...

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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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