Devociones políticas

La gran cantidad de estudios que circulan sobre las Cruzadas se explica no sólo por el interés que intrínsecamente despierta el tema, sino porque existe un vacío de análisis verdaderamente precisos, rigurosos, que configuren un panorama del verdadero debate histórico. Claude Cahen nos comparte en este libro sus ideas al respecto, recogiendo los problemas de uno y otro lado.

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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...

"Etapas Reivindicativas de la Teoria Nacional Catalana" demuestra como algunos textos de Jacint Verdaguer, Narcis Oller y Enric Prat de la Riba se corresponden con las etapas que Eric J. Hobsbawm describe como necesarias para crear una nacion. Es importante en esta interpretacion el tema de los Juegos Florales que unieron a Verdaguer, Oller y Prat de la Riba en su lucha por la libertad de Cataluna. El ensayo tambien presenta como ciertas ideas de estos escritores influyeron en la nueva sociedad catalana del siglo y se convirtieron en realidad con la -Mancomunitat- en 1914, que llevo a la...