Literatura, cine y Guerra Civil

«Un elocuente relato de la noble historia de las bibliotecas, tal cual se ha desarrollado desde los tiempos más antiguos hasta el presente». Nicholas A. Basbanes, autor de A Gentle Madness. Desde que el mundo es mundo, las bibliotecas han sido construidas, quemadas, descubiertas, saqueadas, amadas... y mientras todo esto tenía lugar, los tesoros en ellas albergados se transformaban y pasaban de ser tablillas de piedra a rollos o pergaminos bellamente iluminados, que a su vez se convirtieron en libros de papel encuadernado y estos en los formatos digitales actuales. Este libro ?dirigido a...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Al Libro quarto Viciana narra la revolta de les Germanies des d'un punt de vista nobiliari que no li impedeix reconèixer el mèrit dels adversaris. És una crònica del moviment agermanat des de la gènesi fins a la vinguda de la virreina Germana de Foix, amb unes notes breus sobre la repressió antiagermanada. La crònica està escrita amb la ferma voluntat de comprendre tot el moviment de forma global. Viciana explica com s'inicià el moviment agermanat a la ciutat de València i des d'allí s'irradià cap a la resta del País Valencià. Relata la gestació de la Germania a les diverses...

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