De la República al exilio

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.

The contents of the book attempt to favour both the epistemological approach to historical knowledge and the perception of the facts from either biased or manipulated information or the natural evolution of human interaction processes. It therefore aspires to a multidisciplinary reflection that raises and discusses aspects of intentional or chance oblivion of historical passages and their future repercussion.

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Se ofrece un despliegue histórico de las genealogías míticas de los diferentes pueblos de Europa, desde la Grecia árcaica hasta la II Guerra Mundial. Se destaca en todas ellas el fondo de una obsesión intemporal, como origen de una serie de disensiones interétnicas en el continente.