Trouver sa place

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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

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A lo largo de la historia ha habido dos grandes tendencias a la hora de conseguir las tropas para entrar en guerra: utilizar ciudadanos, como, en general, fue el caso del Imperio romano y la mayoría de los países después de la Revolución Francesa, o recurrir a mercenarios, como hicieron Aníbal y las ciudades italianas del Renacimiento. La aparición de los modernos mercenarios se produjo al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con la desmovilización de los ejércitos de masas. Millones de antiguos soldados intentaron retomar su vida civil. Muchos de los que no lo consiguieron, o ya no...

Se recogen en el presente volumen una serie de trabajos ya publicados, actualizados y completados en su contenido. Todos tratan sobre las tres grandes colonizaciones, fenicia, griega y cartaginesa, anteriores a la llegada de los romanos a la Península Ib