Historia de la Revolución rusa

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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...

Este libro continua la primera parte, publicada ya en esta misma colección, y estudia desde el final del siglo V, marcado por la conclusión de la larga Guerra del Peloponeso, hasta la paz de Apamea en el primer tercio del siglo II (antes de Cristo). Este periodo es esencial en la historia griega y en la formación y configuración de las instituciones y los conceptos fundamentales que alimentarán durante siglos a Occidente. Desde la crisis de la polis hasta el nuevo concepto helenístico de realeza, este libro se presenta como un completo trabajo histórico.

Según el historiador Indalecio Liévano Aguirre, las galerías de prohombres colombianos están llenas de mediocres, provenientes de una fronda aristrocrática, que mediante las leyes redactadas al acomodo, abusa del poder político, gracias a la ignorancia colectiva del pueblo. Por otra parte, es usual que muchos de esos prohombres hayan sido delincuentes de cuello blanco, cuyas familias amasaron ingentes capitales expoliando dineros públicos o negociaciones siniestras. A juzgar por la denuncia pública reiterada en múltiples escenarios políticos y académicos por el historiador Enrique...