Un Inmenso prostíbulo

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Segovia era una provincia que votaba tradicionalmente a las derechas y donde las organizaciones obreras y republicanas no habían protagonizado actos de violencia durante los años de la república. ¿Cómo explicarse entonces que la represión franquista causara 358 muertes documentadas, de las que más de doscientas fueron ejecuciones ilegales, sin juicio ni garantía alguna? Entre los libros que estudian la represión en la guerra civil éste representa algo distinto. Nunca se había realizado una investigación tan exhaustiva en toda una provincia, que pudiera llegar hasta devolvernos las ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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.