José Sazbón

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

En esta obra se trata de describir y, en la medida de lo posible, explicar el proceso histórico mediante el cual se efectuó la transición desde 1a propiedad territorial feudal, organizada en Galicia de modo hegemónico a través del sistema foral y protagonizada, de una parte, por el clero y la hidalguía y, de otra por el campesinado, hasta la propiedad privada libre, conquistada por este último durante el primer tercio del presente siglo. El libro se inicia, por tanto, con el análisis del contexto histórico en el que campesinos y pequeños rentistas sucumben a manos de la pujante...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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