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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Esta nueva serie de estudios abarca un período crucial: el Bajo Imperio, base sobre la que se asentó la España Visigoda y, en general, la Alta Edad Media. Este nuevo volumen viene así a engrosar la lista de los libros dedicados a Hispania aparecidos en esta misma colección -La Romanización, I y II, y Nuevos estudios sobre la Romanización- y su conjunto ofrece una base sólida para el conocimiento profundo de una larga y conflictiva etapa de nuestra historia.

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En su libro Bernardita Llanos M. examina la ilustracion espanola a traves del surgimiento de una ideologia nacionalista que sostiene la necesidad del colonialismo. Distintos sectores adaptan la ilustracion a sus aspiraciones politicas, sin embargo, comparten el interes comun por la recuperacion del pasado colonial y sus heroes. A traves del analisis del distintos discursos, la conquista y el descubrimiento del America aparecen como temas recurrentes en la mitificacion del pasado y el caracter nacional que exiben las distintas visiones politicas. Esta parte de la historia imperial se realiza...