Venezuela y la contrarrevolución cubana

Obra clasica en la historiografia de las ideas politicas, este libro constituye una vasta exploracion de la teoria medieval de la realeza, basada en la concepcion cristocentrica de la monarquia como vicaria establecida por Dios en la Tierra para el gobierno temporal de las almas. A imagen de Cristo, el rey poseia dos cuerpos: natural el uno (sometido a las flaquezas y debilidades consustanciales al ser humano) y politico el otro (invisible, inmortal, infalible y destinado a una continuidad historica sin interrupciones). Pese a sus semejanzas con algunos conceptos paganos, Ernst H. Kantorowicz ...

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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...

Considerada una obra maestra que arroja luz sobre una de las guerras más confusas del siglo XX. De una forma brillante y con detalles conmovedores, Hugh Thomas analiza este devastador conflicto en el que las esperanzas, los sueños y las creencias de este siglo estallaron en el campo de batalla. La Guerra Civil refleja, como si de un microcosmos se tratara, las tensiones que llevaron a Europa a la Guerra Mundial: de la puesta en juego de las maquinaciones de Franco y Hitler, a la tragedia de Guernica y la caída de aquellos que creían en la democracia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A masterpiece of...