Narcoamérica

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El océano como paisaje: Pageant of the Pacific (Esplendor del Pacífico) es un estudio sobre los mapas murales que Miguel Covarrubias haría para la Golden Gate International Exhibition de 1939. Como señala la autora, Mónica Ramírez, el discurso oficial de este evento cultural y político afirmaba su propia creación como una forma de celebrar la novedosa tecnología utilizada en la construcción del emblemático puente. Desde una perspectiva mucho más amplia, se trataba sobre todo de situar a la ciudad de San Francisco como el centro de una expansión por parte de los Estados Unidos...

Los autores ponen foco sobre dos hechos que cambiaron la vida económica de la Vega de Granada en 1874, en que llegó a Granada el ferrocarril Bobadilla-Granada, construico por la Compañía de Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Málaga, luego Compañía de Ferrocarriles Andaluces, y en 1882, en que comenzó a producir azúcar el Ingenio de San Juan, primera fábrica de azúcar de remolacha de España. Un ferrocarril de este a oeste de la Vega que enlazaba con toda la red de ferrocarriles y una gran industria con grandes efectos multiplicadores que necesitaba de este ferrocarrill para movilizar...