Un momento historiográfico

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Es inevitable -explica la autora- plantear la filiacin entre revolucin hispnica y Revolucin francesa -separadas en el tiempo tan slo por 20 aos- o el parentesco entre las dos, pues el movimiento francs no slo trastoc el equilibrio poltico de Europa sino que fue un fenmeno de alcances sociales, polticos y culturales que domin -ya como prototipo, ya como objeto de rechazo- todo el debate poltico del Viejo Mundo.

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...

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