Attic red figure pottery : workshops and trade (4th Century b.C.) : The case of Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia)

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Este libro contiene la utopía de don Vasco -una utopía de convivencia- y sigue las vicisitudes del gobierno indio español de la "ciudad de Mechuacan" que fundó el obispo, primero en Tzintzuntzan y despúes en Pátzcuaro.

El guano, las aves y las islas guaneras han jugado un papel inmenso en nuestra historia desde la época precolombina; así, los antiguos peruanos consideraban esas islas, los seres que las habitaban y los excrementos que las cubrían como sagrados y dignos de ser venerados. A mediados del siglo XIX, el guano irrumpió en el mundo como materia prima agrícola, en el momento álgido de la era de la mercantilización. En Perú se suele ver esta Edad del Guano como una época de oportunidades perdidas; no obstante, aún queda mucho que aprender de la "falaz prosperidad" que precedió al...

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