Chile: Cien días en la historia del siglo XX

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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...

Estudio de las las fortificaciones habaneras, magnifica sintesis de cuantro siglos de arte defensivo espanol en America, su historia, arquitectura, ingenieros militares, valores culturales.

Fantasmas en escena estudia la desaparición de personas en el teatro del período 2001-2015 a través del análisis de cuatro obras: Un mismo árbol verde, de Claudia Piñeiro; Los murmullos, de Luis Cano; La Chira (El lugar donde conocí el miedo), de Ana Longoni, y Luisa se estrella contra su casa, de Ariel Farace, todas estrenadas en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Mariana Eva Perez toma distancia de la caracterización de la desaparición forzada como una forma entre otras de violencia estatal y la entiende en este libro como una biopolítica de producción de espectros. Esta biopolítica...