Atletas y ciudadanos

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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...

Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes entre los historiadores que, mexicanos y extranjeros, han escrito obras decisivas sobre nuestra historia: David A. Brading, Christian Duverger, John H. Elliott, Brian R. Hamnett, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Enrique Krauze, Miguel León-Portilla, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Jean Meyer, Guilhem Olivier, Hugh Thomas, Guillermo Tovar de Teresa y Eric Van Young.

La versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla. Por el contrario, los belicosos países de Europa occidental, Inglaterra, Escocia, Castilla, Aragón, Francia y Portugal, eran pobres y atrasados, debilitados por las epidemias, las pésimas condiciones sanitarias y las guerras incesantes. En cuanto a Norteamérica, en el siglo XV era...