El elefante en la sala. Neoliberalismo e historiografía revisionista del Porfiriato"

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

Nadie está a salvo de lo que parece que no hay que demostrar: las ideas preconcebidas o los lugares comunes; tópicos insertos en los discursos e imaginarios cotidianos que a simple vista parecen formar parte del sentido común, pero que están muy lejos de ser inocentes o inocuos, ya que forman parte de la disputa por la hegemonía cultural y política. En este libro se plantean 24 lugares comunes ampliamente extendidos sobre la identidad nacional española y que han articulado el relato sobre la historia y el presente español: ¿es España una nación construida contra el islam?,...

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La historia de enfermos, enfermedades y médicos desde la Conquista hasta 1906. Males de héroes, próceres y de quienes no lo fueron tanto.