At Desperta Ferro Ediciones we want to give a voice to our followers and readers, because we are sure that behind a great reader there is a potential writer. From the publisher we want to encourage you all to write with a historical micro-essay contest . Do you dare to take the pen?
The objective of this contest was to write an essay in Spanish on a free historical theme with an extension between 1,200 and 1,500 words (bibliography and citations apart) . We were not strict if this amount is slightly exceeded, but we wanted them to be micro-essays that allow us to focus on a specific topic as if it were a small discovery.
Regarding the theme, we do not put any limits on the text, if among you there is a fan of Japanese history, surprise us with your knowledge of the Heian era. If, on the other hand, your source of attention is the Russian Revolution or the American independence of the 19th century, do not be shy and send us your texts, we have various prizes if we like your historical micro-essay!nDeadline for receiving micro-essays It was on February 28 .
After evaluating all the texts under the historical and scientific rigor that characterizes us, we will choose a winner who will be awarded with a premium subscription , a modality that allows you to receive all the issues of our four magazines and specials for a year. In addition, we will have three finalists who will receive a free subscription to the magazine of their choice . All those essays that have a sufficient level will be published on the blog of our website so that they have a good diffusion and that everyone can know your brilliant facet as a writer. What if there is a promising historian among you?
Results of the I Desperta Ferro Historical Microessay Contest
The wait has been long, but we finally have the results of the I Historical Microessay Contest Wake up Iron. We apologize for taking so long to decide, but the participation has exceeded all our expectations and we have had to carefully review (and enjoy) more than 130 essays! Below we collect the winning essay , awarded with a Premium Subscription, and the three finalists , awarded with a subscription to one of our magazines, at the winner's choice.
You can now enjoy these four articles on our blog, and over the next few weeks we will publish many more of the texts submitted to the contest, there have been so many good ones that the decision has not been easy...
Congratulations to the winners, and infinite thanks to all the participants!
Winner of the I Desperta Ferro Historical Microessay Contest
From the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the vaccine and the «arm to arm» sacrifice
by Esperanza Molero Silvero
In 1803, part of the port of La Coruña a corvette bound for the overseas colonies with doctors Balmis and Salvany on board accompanied by 22 children. The objective, to bring the smallpox vaccine to the territories of the Kingdom of Spain in America to immunize the population and stop the epidemic that was killing millions of lives and with the large tax collection with which the royal coffers were maintained. Read
Finalist of the I Desperta Ferro Historical Microessay Contest
Venality and meritocracy in Philip IV's army. The case of Alonso de Mercado and Villacorta
by Iván Muñoz Muñoz
Merit, quality and experience. Those were the bases of the promotion and promotion system that the Crown made an effort to implement in its armies since the middle of the s. XVI. The objective was obvious:the more qualified the officers were, the better the units they commanded would function.
ReadChina and Japan as contrasting examples of a collision with the West in the 19th century
by Gerard Piera
Making a retrospective analysis of the economic, political and , military and social power of China and Japan in the mid-18th century, one could hardly imagine that a century and a half later, at the end of the 19th century, China would go from being the leading power in Asia –and surely in the world– to being a impoverished, politically irrelevant and socially troubled country. Similarly, no one could imagine that the Japan of the Tokugawa shogunate, an autocratic, feudal and isolationist regime, would become a clearly advanced, open country with military ambitions in just over a century and a half. The arrival en masse in the mid-nineteenth century of the European powers, with which they had timid contacts for centuries, further destabilized the governments of both countries, which had already been dragging serious internal problems for some time.
ReadOhio. The last battle of a civil war that was fought on the charts
by Darío Vico
Monday, May 4, 1970, United States he lost his final battle in the Vietnam War. It was not in the distant jungles of the Asian country where the debacle had begun to take shape, not only military but also social, but on the campus of the University of Kent, in Ohio. Unlike many other actions waged by his armies, this was not heroic; the hundred soldiers of the National Guard, deployed to contain the unrest that had been going on for days and had turned into anti-war protests on campus, had retreated to the top of a hill and was being besieged by protesters, but while some they were armed with M1 semi-automatic rifles, the others with stones and slogans, many with only books and folders.
ReadGet the colors out of us!
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