HAÏTI CHÉRIE 1979 - 1980

Río, territorio y presencia humana han formado durante siglos una unidad inseparable e interdependiente, una simbiosis que convirtió Montnegre en una tierra plácida y próspera, a pesar de su aspecto desértico y de las circunstancias, a menudo desfavorables, que ha tenido que atravesar. La conquista cristiana repartió el territorio de Montnegre entre los reinos de Valencia y Murcia, sometido a fueros diferentes e incluso con distintas unidades de medida, y aún hoy se encuentra dividido entre diferentes términos municipales. Tras la construcción del pantano de Tibi (1594) para regar...

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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...

Esta obra nos ofrece un original y provocador analisis sobre la feroz lucha intelectual que se llevo a cabo en ambos lados del Atlantico durante el siglo XVIII: los debates historiograficos alrededor del origen del Nuevo Mundo. El autor revisa la autoridad cultural, la validez y la veracidad de los diversos argumentos y las evidencias historicas empleadas en aquellos debates mediante una serie de discursos relativamente complejos sobre temas relacionados con la Nueva Espana, como la historia, la historiografia, la epistemologia y el concepto de la identidad americana; asi mismo, coloca por un ...