Entre lo legal, lo ilícito y lo clandestino

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Michael Jacobs, nacido en Italia en 1952, es un escritor de viajes e historiador del arte inglés, afincado en el pueblo jienense de Frailes desde 1999. Actualmente es uno de los hispanistas más renombrados de su generación y ha sido tildado como "el George Borrow de la era de la alta velocidad". Es autor de libros de viajes y sobre arte y, además de este De la Alhambra a Tombuctú, su primer libro vertido al español, ha publicado sobre España Andalucia (Penguin Books, 1990), Between hopes and memories. A spanish journey (Picador, 1994) y The factory of light (John Murray, 2003),...

Todavía encerrado en las superviviencias de la época feudal, heredero de estructuras aparentemente inmóviles, el siglo XVIII se despega poco a poco del orden antiguo y se abre a un mundo ampliado, tanto por el pensamiento crítico y el progreso científico como por la expansión mercantil y una economía fuerte y renovada. Europa entra por entonces en la modernidad con ritmos desiguales. Grandes inercias persisten en lo social, y más aún en el interior de las mentalidades, pero la sociedad se mueve en su nivel más profundo, los marcos jurídicos se quiebran, las tinieblas retroceden: un ...