De Múnich a Auschwitz

Special Spanish-English Bilingual Edition Edicion especial ingles-castellano On September 11, 2012, on Catalonia's National Day, 1.5 million people from all over Catalonia marched peacefully and joyfully through the streets of Barcelona, behind a single placard: Catalonia: New State in Europe. Fifteen days later, President Artur Mas called snap elections for the Parliament of Catalonia, in order to hold a referendum that would let the people of Catalonia decide their own future. The rest of the world and even Spain were caught by surprise, but the events unfolding in Barcelona have been a...

La monarquía constitucional española no se ha sostenido sobre el fervor monárquico de la población, sino sobre un accidentalismo pragmático que ha comenzado a diluirse. La crisis económica ha agudizado la falta de legitimación de la institución y sus privilegios son ahora vistos como desproporcionados en un régimen liberal democrático. Pero, ¿es contradictoria la defensa de la Monarquía con la pervivencia de la democracia liberal? ¿Es el republicanismo algo más que una ficción idealizada de la Segunda República? ¿O es más un canto esencialista a favor de una reformulación...

The complete text of the speeches, interviews, and other primary texts of the late Jorge Mas Canosa (1939-1997).

The regime of Juan Perón is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This new book—an English translation of a highly popular, critically acclaimed Spanish language edition—provides a new perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. Mariano Plotkin's cultural approach makes Perón's popularity understandable because it goes beyond Perón's charismatic appeal and analyzes the Perónist mechanisms used to generate political consent and mass mobilization. Mañana es San Perón is the first book to focus on the cultural and symbolic dimensions of Perónism and ...