Obras selectas de Georges Duby

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The Project was born when Professor Omer Bartov began to question his Israeli family on their European origins. The answers led him to a long exploration of places, archives, passages, books, monuments, and memories of the most brutal chapter in the history of the twentieth century. The genocide perpetrated by the Nazi's and their accomplices in Ukraine was not a methodical industrial activity, but rather an endless succession of almost intimately crafted killings. Some responsible even benefitted politically or economically. The echoes of what happened arrive today as small keys that help us ...

Este libro publicado en 1970 y revisado en 1975, muestra el proceso deliberado de convertir el mosaico humano que habitaba el extenso territorio de la Nueva Espana en un estado-nacion. La experiencia historica y administrativa de tres siglos, habia generado importantes lazos culturales, pero hasta entonces la lealtad a la Corona y la religion eran las fuentes principales de union. Al romperse las ligas con Espana hubo que trasladar la lealtad del Rey al gobierno independiente, y como en otros casos, se recurrio a los rituales civicos y a la educacion publica y, dentro de ella, a la ensenanza...

Hitler y Chamberlain en Munich en 1938; Roosevelt, Churchill y Stalin en Yalta en 1945; Kennedy y Jruschov en Viena en 1961; Nixon y Bréznev en Moscú en 1972; Carter, Sadat y Begin en Camp David en 1978; Gorvachov y Reagan en Ginebra en 1985. Seis cumbres políticas que modelaron el siglo XX, desde el estallido de la segunda guerra mundial hasta el final de la guerra fría, pasando por la repartición de Europa en la posguerra, la extrema tensión nuclear entre las superpotencias que tuvo su punto álgido en la crisis de los misiles de Cuba, y los intentos de apaciguar el polvorín de...