Talamantes

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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La nocin conquistador-conquistado es la idea principal que recorre los cinco captulos de este libro, idea que est contenida en el siguiente silogismo: siendo que Nicaragua es producto de la conquista, es perfectamente razonable estudiar su historia desde la perspectiva de las relaciones entre conquistador y conquistado. Y efectivamente ella es una idea fructfera. Permite captar la historia del pas como una ancha avenida en la que se perciben sus altos y bajo, sus giros a uno y otro lado. Ilumina el entendimiento sobre el origen de las desigualdades sociales, econmicas y culturales. Permite...

Este libro es una obra conmemorativa de una fecha histórica relacionada con el Bicentenario del proceso de Independencia de Colombia. Justamente posee problemáticas variadas, pero siempre con fenomenologías en torno a 1819, verbigracia, los antecedentes, las distintas miradas del problema histórico e historiográfico desde diversas ópticas de análisis (como en efecto las hay), sus repercusiones y, por supuesto, lo que representó a lo largo del tiempo para la construcción del Estado-Nación.