Cazadores de dragones

Nos referimos al período de entreguerras del siglo XX y a su onda expansiva de autoritarismo y exclusión. Melgar Bao analiza la porosidad de los espacios públicos nacionales desde el tejido (no siempre visible) de redes intelectuales y políticas transfronterizas, a fin de develar la trama subyacente de confrontación entre quienes detentan el poder y los opositores llevados al destierro, la clandestinidad y la cárcel. México resulta el país refugio de la mayoría de los exilios políticos, que van desde las corrientes y organizaciones socialistas (estalinistas o no), hasta las filiadas ...

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...

Esta Historia universal SIGLO XXI, preparada y editada inicialmente por Fischer Verlag (Alemania), sigue un nuevo concepto: exponer la totalidad de los acontecimientos del mundo, dar todo su valor a la historia de los países y pueblos de Asia, África y América. Resalta la cultura y la economía como fuerzas que condicionan la historia. Saca a la luz el despertar de la humanidad a su propia conciencia. En la Historia universal SIGLO XXI han contribuido ochenta destacados especialistas de todo el mundo. Consta de 36 volúmenes, cada uno de ellos independiente, y abarca desde la prehistoria...

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