Herencia africana en América

Tras un intento fallido en 1834, a principios de 1836 tres valles pirenaicos navarros (Aezkoa, Roncal y Salazar) y Valcarlos, en la línea de que el mejor modo de combatir a los carlistas era “contrarrevolucionar la Navarra contra la Navarra” y de que “el país debía pacificarse por el mismo país”, se pronunciaron con éxito contra los partidarios de don Carlos. Para ello se dotaron de juntas de armamento y defensa, movilizaron a más de dos millares de hombres bajo el mando de militares profesionales paisanos suyos y formaron la denominada “Confederación Liberal de la Montaña...

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...

Baschet tuvo la notable idea de "estudiar la Edad Media en tierras americanas". Su esfuerzo por ofrecer una historia de larga duraci n y mostrar c mo una de las fuentes de la historia de M xico es la historia medieval europea, dio como resultado una obra de gran originalidad y amplios alcances. el autor plantea preguntas fundamentales: c mo definir el feudalismo?, puede hablarse de feudalismo en Am rica Latina?, se trata de un feudalismo tard o y dependiente?, con cuyas respuestas renueva ambas historias, la americana y la europea, la primera a trav s del pasado y la segunda, del porvenir.

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...