Historia de Europa

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En 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville se embarca con su amigo y compañero de la carrera judicial Gustave de Beaumont camino de Estados Unidos. Quince días en las soledades americanas es un apunte vital y evocador de una extraordinaria frescura que nos permite asistir al proceso de colonización estadounidense. En este caso no el de las praderas del medio Oeste, popularizado y mistificado ad nauseam por el cine, sino el de los inabarcables bosques de la región de los Grandes Lagos. En estos párrafos Tocqueville nos presenta un retrato en el que se entrelaza el proceso de construcción de la...

La gran cantidad de estudios que circulan sobre las Cruzadas se explica no sólo por el interés que intrínsecamente despierta el tema, sino porque existe un vacío de análisis verdaderamente precisos, rigurosos, que configuren un panorama del verdadero debate histórico. Claude Cahen nos comparte en este libro sus ideas al respecto, recogiendo los problemas de uno y otro lado.