América Latina

Dos personalidades altivas, Bolívar llega a Cartagena, Los emigrados van a los frentes de guerra, Un estratega excepcional, El comienzo de la discordia, Una discrepancia sustancial, La ley del Talión, 1814: un año nefasto, El Libertador regresa a la Nueva Granada, Del Castillo se niega a colaborar, De la efervescencia a la asonada, Prevenciones infundadas, Bolívar se dispone a cumplir su misión, Estrategia panfletaria, Gestiones infructuosas, El enorme costo de una discordia, Morillo se dirige a tierra firme, “El Pacificador” arriba a Santa Marta, Desembarco de las tropas realistas,...

En esta obra se trata de describir y, en la medida de lo posible, explicar el proceso histórico mediante el cual se efectuó la transición desde 1a propiedad territorial feudal, organizada en Galicia de modo hegemónico a través del sistema foral y protagonizada, de una parte, por el clero y la hidalguía y, de otra por el campesinado, hasta la propiedad privada libre, conquistada por este último durante el primer tercio del presente siglo. El libro se inicia, por tanto, con el análisis del contexto histórico en el que campesinos y pequeños rentistas sucumben a manos de la pujante...

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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...