De humilde e ilustre cuna: retratos familiares de la España Moderna (siglos XV-XIX)

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La sociedad decadente revela lo que sucede cuando una sociedad rica y poderosa detiene su avance, y cómo la combinación de riqueza y dominio tecnológico con el estancamiento económico, la parálisis política, el agotamiento cultural y el declive demográfico crean una especie de "decadencia sostenible". Muchos de los descontentos actuales, así como el devenir absurdo y errático que caracteriza a la realidad —desde los transbordadores espaciales en tierra hasta los villanos de Silicon Valley, desde el cine y la televisión de insulso reciclaje hasta el escapismo mediante el consumo de ...

Este ensayo nos traslada al África Subsahariana, en un principio con un hecho de la etapa colonial americana prácticamente desconocido donde Buenos Aires, por entonces capital del Virreinato del Río de la Plata, debía administrar e incorporar bajo su jurisdicción esos territorios del continente africano. La expedición hispánica que partió en 1778 desde el puerto de Montevideo hacia el Golfo de Guinea, por diversas causas que se mencionan en el libro fracasará para posteriormente retomarla en otras condiciones y con mayor éxito a mediados del siglo XIX, donde finalmente los...