El Risorgimento

1861-1865: La cruenta guerra de secesión y sangrienta batalla contra la esclavitud que significó el fin de una época. Lincoln, Custer, Grant, Sherman, Whitman. La Unión contra los Estados Confederados de América, desde los orígenes del conflicto hasta Gettysburg, el asesinato de Lincoln y el resurgimiento de los Estados Unidos como estado nación moderno.Una mirada a las claves de una guerra civil sin paliativos, en la que se jugó el futuro de una nación: agraria o industrial, de esclavos o de hombres libres. Una visión de las situaciones bélicas y de los hombres y mujeres que...

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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...

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...