Este es un libro sobre la VERDAD y todas nuestras ingeniosas maneras de evitarla a lo largo de la historia.Se dice que vivimos en una era de la posverdad. Estados Unidos tuvo un presidente que mentia abiertamente a diario (o que ni siquiera sabia lo que era cierto ni le importaba). Internet ha convertido nuestra vida cotidiana en una batalla de desinformacion. La gente ya no confia en los expertos.Pero, ¿de veras ha existido alguna vez una edad dorada de la veracidad? Como editor de la principal organizacion verificadora de datos independiente del Reino Unido, Tom Phillips se enfrenta a diario a absolutas sandeces. En este libro nos cuenta la hilarante historia de como los humanos nunca hemos dejado de mentirnos los unos a los otros (y a nosotros mismos) a lo largo de los siglos, y formula una pregunta importante: ¿como puede avanzar la humanidad hacia un futuro mas veraz?
Hobsbawm nos muestra aquí los años triunfales del ascenso del capitalismo industrial y de la cultura burguesa que van de 1848 a 1875, cuando, apagados los rescoldos de la revolución, se inicia un tiempo de nuevos valores y nuevas perspectivas, de transformaciones sociales, que ve la formacion de grandes fortunas y la migracion de masas empobrecidas, mientras una Europa sometida al nuevo ritmo de los auges y las crisis extiende sus empresas economicas y su cultura al resto del planeta. Hobsbawm nos habla de los acontecimientos politicos, de la evolucion economica y de los hechos culturales en una sintesis vigorosa y original, que hizo exclamar a un critico: Este libro extraordinario brilla y chisporrotea en cada pagina. Por amor del cielo, y para vuestro propio bien, ¡leedlo!.
The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has been broadly welcomed by contemporary British historians as a means of increasing access to public records within the thirty-year rule. But the benefits of this formal commitment to open government are untested, and experiences in other countries with FOI or Access to Information legislation have raised a number of shared problems and concerns.These problems are common among countries with FOI legislation. But there has been very little discussion among historians and archivists internationally about dealing with these issues as well as reflecting on the benefits of access legislation.This volume will be the first to compare and reflect upon both the successes and difficulties of FOI across the world. Written by an international mixture of senior archivists and historians, it will appeal across the disciplines of history and archive studies.
UN CONFLICTO LEGAL EN ESTADOS UNIDOS AMENAZÓ CON QUITARLE 26 MILLONES DE DÓLARES A MARIO MORENO «CANTINFLAS» Y MANCHAR SU REPUTACIÓN IRREVERSIBLEMENTE.Joyce Jett, ama de llaves de la casa de Cantinfl
It is impossible to understand our societies without apprehending their technical roots, which constitute the foundations of our political, economic, cultural, and everyday world. This book offers for the first time a synthesis of the global history of contemporary techniques, based on the contributions of recent historiography. Gathering more than fifty specialists of the history of technology, we present an overview of technical evolutions on a global scale. As such, the book accounts for a diversity that challenges both teleological approaches on progress and Eurocentric perspectives. It explores the complex socioeconomic implications of techniques as well as the system of representations and power strategies that led to the emergence of our contemporary world. The purpose is to decentre the history of technology. In this perspective, a central question concerns the very category of the history of technology, i.e. the term 'technology.' Refusing both the limitations of 'technology' and of 'useful knowledge', we reaffirm the necessity to study techniques as embodying human activity as a whole. In that sense, history is tied to anthropology and ethnology. This book follows a three-part organization. The first section opens with a world tour of techniques, restoring the complexity of regional historiographies and of the meanings given to technical activities in society. The second part focuses on sectors of activity, processes, and products with a strong emphasis on means of production and communication, the exploitation of natural resources, major technical systems, infrastructures and networks. The final section provides access to major cross-related issues (devoting much attention to the role played by technology in globalization, particularly through colonization, imperialism, and the extension of large technical systems).
