Actas del X Congreso de Hispanistas de Ucrania, Universidad Nacional Tarás Shevchenko de Kyiv, 20 y 21 de septiembre de 2019

El propósito de este libro ha sido estudiar y por consiguiente identificar los principios de causalidad que dieron origen a uno de los fenómenos más llamativos del Bajo Imperio: el tumulto urbano, el motín ciudadano, el disturbio popular.

The book When we were Arabs is a declaration of principles. The complexity of our history requires postmodern approaches to recognize the liquid borders of realities such as Europe and Islam, especially if it is written from a European land where there was a time when we were Arabs.

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...

Simpson refleja la contradictoria fascinacion y el asombro que produce en los extranjeros el pasado y el presente de Mexico, lo mismo en el terreno de la referencia abstracta que en el de la confrontacion con una realidad cotidiana en la que la historia reaparece siempre con renovada vigencia. Tal vez por eso el autor nos dice que su libro es una invitacion al lector a hacer con el un remunerador viaje al pasado de Mexico.