Obras selectas de Georges Duby

The storied town of Durango is situated on the farmlands of the Ancestral Puebloans, which later became the hunting grounds for the Southern Utes, in the Animas River Valley of southwestern Colorado. Founded in 1880 as the headquarters of the Silverton branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Durango became the supply depot for gold and silver mines up and down the Western Slope. One of the few old-time cowboy towns in Colorado that retains the vibrancy of a self-supporting downtown of hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, Durango has worked actively to restore and remodel historic ...

[…] Al igual que otras prácticas, el teatro fue utilizado como arma de lucha, instrumento básico para la toma de conciencia y preparación ideológica del pueblo, fuerza motriz de la revolución. Actores, dramaturgos, incluso grupos completos, se alinearon con uno u otro proyecto político de izquierda y llegaron, en algunos casos, a convertirse en el brazo legal a través del cual organizaciones clandestinas reclutaron militantes para la guerrilla. En el presente trabajo se emplea el concepto de dramaturgia militante para designar tal fenómeno y el de política de masas para aludir a...

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...

De Olfato. Aproximaciones a los olores en la historia de México es una colección de artículos sobre los olores y la experiencia que de ellos han tenido los sujetos individuales y colectivos a través de la historia de México en tres periodos: el prehispánico, el colonial y el contemporáneo. Representa la entrada de la historia mexicana en el campo de la historia de las sensibilidades.