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...

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Silencio. Nace una semilla es ensayo, testimonio y crónica. Se refiere al movimiento estudiantil chileno del 2011, donde emerge el nuevo sujeto político colectivo que Chile requería, que volvería obsoleto al régimen político y económico heredado de la dictadura militar. Desde el punto de vista de las humanidades, se enfoca dinámicamente el conflicto, sus actores y las etapas de su desarrollo. Central es el antagonismo Gobierno versus estudiantes, las marchas y su insospechada aparición y los diversos mecanismos creativos de los jóvenes. Todos ellos inéditos. Los estudiantes otra...

Esta obra compila las miradas de 20 historiadores sobre la "revolucionaria" década de 1860. Enfocando tres regiones distintas -América del Norte, del Sur y Europa- explora las formas en que sociedades diferentes enfrentaron una serie de transformaciones compartidas, que dislocaron y reconstituyeron el mundo que conocían

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...