La regionalización en Colombia y la transformación de los Llanos orientales.

Una antología conformada por textos de quienes visitaron Venezuela desde el siglo XVI hasta el XX y se convirtieron en testigos de aventuras, desastres y amores. «Casi ningún viajero encontró lo que esperaba; la mayoría sintió que era el azar lo que gobernaba sus vidas, no los mapas ni el régimen de lluvias. Esas paradojas explican que las descripciones más veraces de Venezuela sean, a menudo, las de quienes imaginaron el país, no las de quienes lo conocieron» Dice Tomás Eloy Martínez al comienzo de esta obra hecha a partir de fragmentos de miradas al país. En algunos casos, los...

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Escrita por un español, con pasión pero con la suficiente ecuanimidad como para exponer los claroscuros de nuestro pasado.

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