Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

La expansión atlántica europea provocó en el espacio conocido ahora como el Perú una fractura histórica radical. Se alteraron significativamente los modos de organización política, social, económica, epistemológica y espiritual que sus comunidades habían elaborado a lo largo de milenios. A esto se suma la experiencia de desarraigo de miles de seres esclavizados procedentes de territorios africanos. De esta realidad, que marca aun el Perú actual, dan cuenta los estudios que reúne el presente volumen, al mismo tiempo que contribuyen a resaltar, al lado de la persistencia de modelos...

Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camaguey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtue, as we can observe reading the events in his life, witnessed by the thousands of people who knew and revered him. It is for this reason that this...

A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX empiezan a conjugarse los factores que desencadenarán un agitado proceso de cambios y revoluciones en un viejo y enorme país de tradición milenaria, aislado del exterior, regido por una monarquía imperial inoperante sometida al creciente influjo colonial europeo. Los textos seleccionados por Julia Morena abarcan la historia última de China: desde el paso de la monarquía a la república en 1911, la constitución de la República Popular en 1949, que con la muerte de Mao en 1976 inicia un nuevo período, hasta los sucesos de Tien Anmen en 1989...

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