El mundo atlántico español durante el siglo XVIII

Los distintos ensayos que se recogen en el presente libro parten del supuesto de que no es posible hacer historia sin hablar de ella. A lo largo de sus páginas el autor analiza una serie de cuestiones centrales para comprender el debate actual sobre la teoría de la Historia, como la propia naturaleza de la disciplina, la arqueología o la modalidad en la Historia.

El jueves 12 de septiembre de 1213, las tropas catalanas, aragonesas y occitanas del rey de Aragón Pedro el Católico se encontraban frente al castillo de Muret, no lejos de Toulouse. Allí estaban los caballeros franceses del conde Simon de Montfort, líder de la cruzada predicada por el papa Inocencio III en 1208 contra los cátaros del sur de Francia. Las circunstancias militares anunciaban una fácil victoria del rey Pedro y la consolidación de una gran monarquía feudal hispano-occitana a caballo de los Pirineos. Sin embargo, la batalla de Muret se convirtió en una de esas derrotas...

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Seven essays were presented at the conference of 2010 in Jekyll Island on the centenary of this event, so in this book, you will find the origins, the foundation, the decisive events and the future of the Federal Reserve of the United States of America. It is written as an economic and macro-economy history analysis, that starts like you may suppose, with the origins of the Federal Reserve and its firsts effects inside the financial scene of the United States of America, afterwards it analyzes the historic labor of this institution since 1913, year of its foundation, until now and accurately...