Around the World in 175 Days

Este libro, ahora en formato digital, recorre la historia de los conflictos sociales y políticos portugueses de los últimos dos siglos desde el punto de vista de los mecanismos coercitivos desplegados por el Estado para contenerlos. De revolución liberal a la de los claveles, este trabajo analiza los condicionantes técnicos, logísticos y políticos de la acción represiva de policías y militares, así como sus efectos en el proceso político. Además de ofrecer una luz nueva sobre el Portugal contemporáneo, propone, desde un estudio de caso, herramientas para pensar las causas y...

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...

Valle Inclán lo explicó en los versos modernistas de La marquesa Rosalinda. A diferencia de Francia, aquí no volaban libremente tras los boscajes, ni furtivos besos del Trianón, ni las ideas de Voltaire y Rousseau: con los ramajes de los boscajes, aquí hacía hogueras la Inquisición. El atraso económico, a pesar del imperio, y la intolerancia, crearon condiciones extremas para que las luces arraigaran en España y no obstante el esfuerzo de reforma del absolutismo ilustrado hizo posible esa tarea casi heroica. Una minoría intelectual encontró una estructura de oportunidad en la...

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