Aldea 1936

El segundo tomo de la historia de la Revolución mexicana cubre de la etapa constitucionalista de 1913 hasta la etapa conocida como lucha de facciones de 1914 a 1917 que finaliza con la proclamación de la constitución. Incluye una cronología de los presidentes de México de 1917 a 1972.

Distanciándose tanto de la Leyenda Negra como de la Leyenda Rosa, Jean Dumont vuelve a dar vida a lo concreto, paso a paso, a lo que realmente ocurrió en la evangelización de América. A través de las biografías apasionantes de cuatro de los prohombres de la evangelización en Perú y en México, este apasionante libro nos descubre muchos hechos y rostros ignorados o silenciados, y que desbaratan no pocos prejuicios y parcialidades. Un libro que nos invita a volver a descubrir el descubrimiento, lo que éste realmente significó para el continente americano y para el mundo.br> «La obra...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...