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Fruto de la reflexion de varios anos sobre la naturaleza del oficio de la historia de la modernidad, este libro se situa en las fronteras de la teoria y de la investigacion historica. Se ofrecen algunas pautas para entender su genesis y apuntar algunos de sus retos y posibilidades actuales. Posee un caracter exploratorio ya que no se intenta proporcionar una solucion definitiva a los problemas vislumbrados. Mas bien su intencion es la de abrir preguntas, plantear algunas hipotesis e invitar al dialogo para proseguir o iniciar nuevas investigaciones historiograficas. Se trata basicamente de un ...

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Todas las culturas humanas, desde las clásicas y la biblica hasta las indígenas de Norteamérica y Suramérica, comparten el mito respecto a un diluvio antiguo que frecuentemente coincide con una lluvia de fuego que cae de los cielos. Ahora, en La Destrucción de la Atlántida el autor Frank Joseph vincula este fenómeno cultural mundial con la historia de la civilización perdida de la Atlántida, la cual desapareció en el mar en solo un día y una noche durante un violento cataclismo. En la narración más completa de esta isla legendaria, Frank Joseph proporciona una evidencia...

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...