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In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These (...)

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the (...)

El periodista Hans Heusser vivía en Madrid, en julio de 1936.Era corresponsal del periódico suizo Basler Nachrichten y presenció la lucha por la capital española desde su comienzo. Como tal observador, su juicio de lo que vivió en Madrid los primeros meses de la contienda es totalmente objetivo, y (...)