Historia de Bogota

Los indígenas del Uruguay fueron perseguidos, debieron migrar, mestizarse y terminaron siendo exterminados; sus mujeres y niños fueron distribuidos entre las familias de la sociedad uruguaya, el resto fue ofrecido como mercadería a los capitanes de puerto, exhibido en circos humanos o enviado a prisión. Nuestro pasado indígena procura responder varios interrogantes: ¿Existe un legado charrúa? ¿Hay una herencia cultural indígena? ¿Cuántas etnias concentraban ese colectivo que nombramos charrúa? ¿Cuáles eran sus fronteras geográficas y culturales? ¿En qué circunstancias se...

Tot i que la impotència s’ha convertit de nou en un tema de conversa acceptable, no hem d’oblidar que ha experimentat una història llarga i acolorida. En aquest fascinant llibre, Angus McLaren ens proporciona la primera història cultural del tema, a través de l’exploració de la multitud de debats, remors i controvèrsies que han tingut lloc en l’àmbit públic al llarg dels segles, des dels temps de Plató fins al present. Un treball que demostra àmpliament que l’ansietat masculina pel funcionament sexual no és un producte de la vida moderna, sinó que es pot rastrejar, de...

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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