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It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn't quite been settled today... but whether Polo ex...

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No podremos entender de forma cabal el sentido último de nuestra contemporaneidad si no comprendemos previamente la violenta y tumultuosa genealogía de la misma. Nuestras sociedades, cada vez más determinadas (y sometidas) por la tiranía inclemente de unos "mercados" omnipotentes a los que nadie parece poder frenar o contener, vienen prefiguradas por una secular trayectoria cuyo hito más decisivo fue la sociedad industrial decimonónica. Porque...

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Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) was an Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. With his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, he traveled on an epic journey through Asia and returned after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa. Imprisoned on his return, Marco was imprisoned and dictated his stories to...

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