Servidumbres y serventias/ Servitude and Servants

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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...

El historiador dos veces galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer David McCullough se sumerge en el pasado estadounidense, siguiendo la estela de Tocqueville y los grandes escritores convencidos de los valores de la democracia. Quince espléndidos textos escritos con ocasión de diferentes conmemoraciones públicas dan lugar a una sólida narración, precisa y elegante: desde valores encarnados en figuras casi míticas como Theodore Roosevelt y J. F. Kennedy al modo como John Adams cedió la responsabilidad de la redacción de la Constitución a Jefferson, al que consideraba mejor escritor que él; ...

No cabe duda de que el marxismo produjo un cambio profundo en la forma de entender la relación entre individuo y sociedad. Asimismo, el materialismo histórico, o método marxista de entender la Historia, transformó la forma de interpretar los acontecimientos y procesos históricos. Este cambio de paradigma alcanzó a los estudios sobre la Antigüedad, resignificando temas clásicos de estudio e introduciendo nuevos enfoques que revitalizaron la disciplina hasta el último tercio del siglo XX. Fruto de ello son, por ejemplo, la aparición de revistas como Past and Present en 1952, la...