Atletas y ciudadanos

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Biografía de Costa Rica es un libro de historia deliberadamente escrito para el lector común en el que se narran los hechos fundamentales de la historia costarricense (hasta el siglo XX). Fundamentado en autores de todas las épocas, aspira a no abrumar a los lectores con un excesivo aparato bibliográfico; al final de cada capítulo, sin embargo, aparecen las principales fuentes utilizadas.

Escribir la historia del comunismo desde una perspectiva global y no militante es uno de los grandes atributos de este libro. Pero también, porque se trata de una historia que reconstruye los lazos que se tejieron entre el movimiento obrero chileno y una organización internacionalista como la OIT, que veía en el comunismo una traba ideológica y política a la reforma social, considerada como requisito indispensable para la paz.

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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...