1692 Motín de Indios

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

Desde sus cráneos deformados hasta su misteriosa escritura jeroglífica, los olmecas son una fuente inagotable de misterios y preguntas que cuestionan la relación intercontinental de la época. En la tierra de Olmán, en el territorio que ahora ocupan los estados mexicanos de Tabasco y Veracruz, se asentaba una de las culturas más misteriosas de todas las mesoamericanas: los olmecas. No fueron conocidos hasta el encuentro internacional de arqueología de 1942, en México, y desde ese momento ya se les conoce como la cultura madre de Mesoamérica, una cultura que desarrolló la metalurgia y ...

En este volumen se incluyen reflexiones sobre la teoria historica y su relacion con la politica, el liberalismo, el Estado y la Iglesia, la Reforma y algunos estudios biograficos e ideologicos sobre protagonistas de la vida nacional en el siglo XIX.

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...