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Un imprescindible libro que cuestiona la necesidad de la memoria histórica. En esta candente y polémica obra el prestigioso intelectual estadounidense David Rieff presenta un conmovedor alegato contra nuestra pasión por el pasado. Analiza cómo la memoria colectiva sirve a la historia más nacionalista, y en su extremo, cómo la memoria de horrores pasados enciende profundos odios étnicos, violencia y guerras. Las matanzas que Rieff presenció en Bosnia tiñeron de sangre para siempre la idea del recuerdo. Este libro es el resultado de esa experiencia. Al cuestionar esa idea central de...

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...

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...

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...