Folklore Argentino...

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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...

Una amplia visión de la vida cultural e intelectual en la Argentina de finales de siglo XX. Un completo panorama de la vida cultural e intelectual en una Argentina que afronta la llegada del nuevo milenio. A pesar de la agitación política y económica esta etapa constituirá uno de los momentos más productivos y ricos de la producción cultural argentina. La colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea es uno de los proyectos editoriales más importantes de las últimas décadas y una aportación original y novedosa a la historiografía sobre América Latina en la que han...

Tiene usted en sus manos dos libros por el precio de uno. Un relato polémico, vivo y doloroso sobre aspectos inéditos de la Guerra Civil en Tenerife. A través de sus escritos, la verdad de un hombre atrapado por la vorágine de los acontecimientos. La víctima, regresa de la tumba para restablecer los hechos en sus justas dimensiones. Frente al olvido, la ingratitud u la crueldad, la solidaria humanidad de quuien se yergue sobre las banderías. Sometido a una muerte prematura, su hombría de bien supera la humillación de la noche inacabable e inacabada de aquellos tiempos. Un juicio a...