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Una reflexión sobre el peso del silencio en la Alemania posterior al nazismo.Fascinado desde muy joven por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Bas von Benda-Beckmann supo con trece años que su tía abuela Luise era la viuda del general mas leal de Hitler, Alfred Jodl, que fue condenado a muerte durante los Juicios de Nuremberg por crimenes de guerra. Mas tarde conocio la historia de Tini, la hermana menor de Luise, que milito en el partido nazi, aunque luego tuvo una relacion con un medico medio judio y entablo amistad con uno de los hombres que conspiraron para asesinar a Hitler.A traves de las cartas, las memorias y los diarios de sus familiares, y en un contexto historico fielmente trazado, el autor reconstruye la historia de Alemania desde los dias del Imperio, la creacion y caida de la Republica de Weimar, el ascenso del nazismo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el posterior enjuiciamiento de los principales responsables del Holocausto.Una sensibilidad fuera de lo comun le permite recomponer magistralmente un pasado que nos interpela a todos. Mi familia nazi nos habla de los prejuicios, de la memoria, de la culpa y del sentido de la responsabilidad hacia nuestro propio pasado, un pasado que debemos conocer para comprender y entender el presente, y evitar asi que los errores cometidos vuelvan a repetirse.

Violencia colonial en el hemisferio sur: Sudáfrica, Namibia, Argentina y Australia.Un mal salvaje es un acto de memoria, una interpelación ética y una apuesta por nuevas formas de pensar el pasado y sus persistencias en el presente.Por el salvajismo de las muertes planificadas que describe, este libro es doloroso. Pero el punto de vista critico de los autores lo torna soportable y, a la vez, necesario para comenzar a restaurar las heridas que siguen abiertas.Liliana Ancalao Meli (poeta mapuche)La construccion de los Estados del hemisferio sur se sostiene sobre una pregunta urgente: ¿sobre que violencias edificaron su prosperidad? El exterminio, la esclavitud y el silenciamiento de los pueblos originarios atraviesan las tramas nacionales que recorren J. M. Coetzee y F. M. Siccardi, trazando una inedita linea de reflexion Sur-Sur. Entre el ensayo y la literatura, los autores entrecruzan memorias personales y narraciones historicas que impugnan los relatos heroicos de fundacion nacional y restituyen la palabra de las voces borradas.Coetzee examina la violencia ejercida contra los pueblos khoi y san en Sudafrica, el genocidio perpetrado por el Imperio aleman en Namibia a comienzos del siglo XX y la persecucion sistematica de los pueblos aborigenes australianos. Siccardi recorre la historia de la violencia colonial en la Pampa y la Patagonia argentinas, desde mediados del siglo XVIII hasta la llamada Conquista del Desierto, y muestra como el Estado y sus imaginarios se forjaron sobre la exclusion indigena.Un mal salvaje desnuda el pasado colonial del sur global y las violencias que siguen organizando el presenteLa critica dijo:Dos autores nacidos en distintos puntos del planeta escriben desde la misma perspectiva: la de los favorecidos por el genocidio y el despojo territorial; perpetrados, directa o indirectamente, por la administracion de sus respectivos paises. Traen de regreso su mirada asombrada de niños frente a las proezas fisicas de esos hombres, los sobrevivientes de la masacre; que ahora trabajan en las estancias de sus respectivas familias. Asi rompen el "estricto codigo de silencio" impuesto por su grupo de pertenencia: Siccardi se define como "alguien apenas tocado por las esquirlas, cuidado por los gravemente heridos" y Coetzee describe a su familia sin raices en el territorio "tomando te y contando chismes en la galeria de la casa, eran como golondrinas de paso". Por el salvajismo de las muertes planificadas que describe, este libro es doloroso. Pero el punto de vista critico de los autores lo torna soportable y, a la vez, necesario para comenzar a restaurar las heridas que siguen abiertas.Liliana Ancalao MeliDoloroso e imprescindible, Un mal salvaje desafia inapelablemente los imaginarios establecidos. Dos voces, tres continentes y el mismo compromiso en darle nueva luz a un tema oscurecido y distorsionado por las culturas oficiales.Sylvia Iparraguirre

Kenneth Roys panorama of post-war Scottish life begins with the VE night celebrations in the spring of 1945 and ends with the coming onstream of North Sea oil in the autumn of 1975. It was the formative period in the making of modern Scotland, but it is a period little explored in depth and not fully understood until now. Using a wealth of contemporary accounts, the book tells a complex and often disturbing story of a country riven by poverty, struggling for a sense of its own identity, and ill-served by its masters. The Invisible Spirit is unsparing in its examination of the failings of the Scottish establishment. It delivers a stinging indictment of political complacency and judicial incompetence and shows that, too often, the interests of Scotland and its people were betrayed. It exposes how, time and again, the truth was covered up in order to protect the powerful and how the press acquiescently accepted a far from reliable official version of events. The book is also, however, the story of ordinary lives, the aspirations, the hardships and the achievements of the Scots themselves. Richly varied in mood from the controversial to the amusing, The Invisible Spirit is both entertaining and compelling. It provides a unique perspective on Scotland at a turning point in its long history.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

Philip of Spain is known in England primarily as the husband of Mary I, the adversary of Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada hands about his neck like an albatross. Yet Philips life encompasses most of the major struggles and issues of the sixteenth century, as he battled to control the vast Empires acquired by his father, alongside his crippling debts.A complex and private man, Philip dealt with personal tragedy whilst fighting fires across Europe and presiding over a golden era of art and literature.As the 500th anniversary of Philips birth approaches, its time for a fresh look at the man, the myth and the marriages.

In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germanys safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze that shocked the world and presaged another era of senseless violence.In Shadow Before the Flame, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz uncovers fresh research that unveils the Hindenburg disaster at a pivotal moment in time, coming as it does at the crossroads of the rising tension between fascist Germany and the United States. Katz traces the experiences of a captivating cast of characters: an heiress, a world-renowned acrobat, a German Jew working to save his family from the clutches of Nazism, a young cabin boy on his first voyage with the crew. Meanwhile, on the ground were two intrepid journalists whose reporting on the Hindenburg would invent breaking news as we now know it. In a gripping, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame is a story that begins with the promise of a future made bright by technological innovation and ends with caskets draped in swastikas in New York City.

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlands past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase weird sisters, familiar from Shakespeares Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the Scottish play and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlands famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnss Tam o Shanter (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction as they have remained.

Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the river-mouth bay and the great water, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From Borrodale (fort-dale) to Kilmory (Maelrubhas chapel), from Druimindarroch (oak-tree ridge) to Eireagoraidh (shieling-corrie), the place-names echo the story of the landscape. This harsh environment was at the heart of the old Macruari and Clanranald estate; this was where Bonnie Prince Charlie first landed and last departed, where fugitive Jacobites skulked and languished, where the great poet Alexander Macdonald breathed his last lines, and whence the sail-ships Jane, Lucy and British Queen carried so many hopes to the New World. Where, despite clearance and emigration, potato blight and deer forest, poverty and hardship, a new road and railway were eventually driven, a fishing industry flourished, and where communities survived.