El bajo Miño en el siglo XV

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Trujillo d'Espagne, cité éponyme de tant d'agglomérations américaines, est un vivier de capitaines qui se sont cruellement illustrés dans la conquête et la colonisation de l'Amérique andine durant tout le XVIe siècle. Au-delà de cette image, la ville vit alors au rythme des liens intenses qu'elle a tissés avec le Nouveau Monde. L'organisation de solides filières de migration, la circulation de l'information, les effets de la mobilité sur les composantes des identités individuelles et collectives, le volume considérable d'or et d'argent qui parvient à ceux qui sont restés,...

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...

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