Antes de Colombia (País 360)

Se rescatan y amplían distintas evidencias sobre el Tabasco antiguo, la Colonia, la Independencia y la Revolución; sobre el comercio, la piratería y la cultura; sobre la economía y la política. la apertura de nuevos archivos y el acceso a nuevo material bibliográfico han permitido contar con una obra mejor acabada.

"Sin la historia eclesiástica (ha dicho Hergenroether) no hay conocimiento completo de la ciencia cristiana, ni de la historia general, que tiene en el cristianismo su centro. Si el historiador debe ser teólogo, el teólogo debe ser también historiador para poder dar cuenta del pasado de su Iglesia a quien le interrogue sobre él o pretenda falsearlo. [...] Nada envejece tan pronto como un libro de historia. [...] El que sueñe con dar ilimitada permanencia a sus obras y guste de las noticias y juicios estereotipados para siempre, hará bien en dedicarse a cualquier otro género de...

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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...