El Risorgimento

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...

Valencia en la revolución es un estudio histórico que analiza las transformaciones urbanas y sociales que provoca la revolución burguesa en la ciudad de Valencia. El libro, que obtuvo el Premi Senyera de Investigaciones Históricas del Ayuntamiento de Valencia en 1999, aborda en la primera parte los cambios urbanos impulsados por la burguesía desde el Ayuntamiento, en donde, a partir de una concepción pública del espacio urbano, se conjugan necesidades ciudadanas con negocios privados. En la segunda, desde un análisis cultural de la revolución burguesa, investiga las manifestaciones...

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army's push through Germany to Berlin, which eventually culminated in the surrender of the German forces to the Allies in 1945. It also offers a detailed breakdown of all the armed forces that conducted the offensive campaigns on the Eastern Front, including the army, air force, paratroopers, navy and NKVD troops. It also...

Edmundo De Amicis era un romántico en el más amplio sentido de la expresión. Y ese romanticismo suyo está muy presente en su ingente obra periodística, ensayística y literaria, hasta el punto en que, trascendiendo los géneros al uso, las crónicas de De Amicis terminaron por erigirse como un género propio, personal e irrepetíble.