Fifty paradoxes of 20th century

Abstract

This essay makes an overview of relevant events of the first half of the Twentieth Century deploying an innovative and appealing procedure. It uses anecdotes and curiosities that engage the reader and avoid the boredom that historic topics provoke among the younger generations. The superfcial can be a way of access to more profound issues and the irrelevant a way to the essential. This methodology mantains, nevertheless, the primordial goal of historical studies: the interpretation of facts over the erudition of data, refection on meaning before a fruitless memorization of events. Addressed in such a manner, if history is to teach something, it is to think critically.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 148, 2016: 27-59