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...

¿Cuándo surgió la civilización en la India? ¿Cuándo apareció en Australia o en España? El origen de las primeras civilizaciones, como la egipcia, es ampliamente conocido, se incluye en todos los manuales y obras de divulgación histórica. Pero pocos escolares, lectores e incluso profesionales sabrían indicar con precisión en qué momento se urbanizaron áreas como el Sudeste Asiático, Japón o incluso su entorno más cercano, ni qué procesos globales y compartidos participaron en este fenómeno clave y decisivo. El presente ensayo habla sobre la aparición y difusión de las...

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann—names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men—complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised...

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Joan Fuster (Sueca, 1922-1992) ejerció la crítica cultural de manera continuada a lo largo de su intensa trayectoria literaria, y en ella desplegó su gran sagacidad y su pensamiento “hipercrítico” –en palabras de J. M. Castellet– para opinar y reflexionar sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la literatura, las artes plásticas, la música, la filosofía, la historia... Este volumen recoge una selección representativa de estos escritos de “estética cultural” –en los que destacan su prosa incisiva, su perspicacia para observar la realidad y su amplio bagaje cultural–, que...