El Hambre del Dragón

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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...

Este libro pretende estudiar, en primer lugar, cómo se ha verificado el tránsito de la Edad Media a la Modernidad y de ésta a la Posmodernidad. Atiende, sobre todo, a las raíces filosóficas de este movimiento porque, a la larga, son las ideas las que transforman las sociedades. Con ello no se niega el valor de los factores económicos, raciales, políticos, etc. Al mismo tiempo, el libro estudia las grandes construcciones ideológicas de la Modernidad, lo que se ha llamado ¿los grandes relatos?, y la crisis profunda en la que ha entrado, como denuncian lo más penetrantes críticos de...

“A cada uno de los grandes acontecimientos europeos, corresponde una reacción en el territorio americano. La escena de Bayona, en la que Fernando VII pierde su corona, inicia el proceso de la independencia y estimula en los criollos el propósito de crear juntas similares a las de España y con el mismo derecho con que aquellos fueron organizadas, al producirse el vacío monárquico. La instalación de las Cortes de Cádiz y la invitación a los americanos a formar parte de ellas, origina la redacción del célebre Memorial de agravios. El regreso de Fernando VII, con el triunfo...