El hundimiento de la Monarquía Hispánica

El autor analiza el surgimiento de las tesis fundacionales en el siglo XIX, su decadencia y su actual renacimiento en el ámbito argentino y chileno. Ellas sustentan las teorías de la "Argentina bioceánica" y del "Chile fantástico".

Este libro analiza de qué modo la incorporación de la escritura a la acción de gobierno dio lugar a formas organizativas que preludiaban la modernidad. El rey Pedro IV empleó primero la escritura para comunicarse con sus familiares; pero este carácter personal pronto se trocó en autoridad cuando trascendía el círculo privado y transmitía el mandato regio a la comunidad más amplia de los súbditos.

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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...