Des Indes occidentales à l’Amérique Latine. Volume 1

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...

La reflexión sobre España tiene una larga e ilustre tradición. Desde la generación del 98 España se presentaba ante todo como un problema. La República, la guerra civil y el franquismo, obligaron a repensarlo todo: España en su historia, la democracia como posibilidad, el atraso económico, la identidad nacional, el problema militar, la aparición de los nacionalismos catalán, vasco y gallego o la organización territorial del Estado. Desde Unamuno, Ortega y Azaña hasta Marías, Semprún y Savater, los intelectuales han tenido en la historia contemporánea española un papel singular ...

Charles Minguet, el biógrafo por excelencia de Humboldt, escribió: "La obra de Humboldt es un nuevo descubrimiento, verdadero, de un continente y una humanidad confinados durante tres siglos en el recinto estrictamente cerrado del pacto colonial". Esta cita retoma la idea de que el barón fue el continuador de Cristóbal Colón en el descubrimiento europeo de América. Esta obra señala algunas dimensiones de la continuidad.

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