Diez nuevas miradas de historia de Cuba

"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz escribió magníficos sonetos que recogían la mejor tradición literaria de España, al tiempo que estaban impregnados de sabor novohispano. También escribió, en español y en náhuatl, espléndidos villancicos, género poético de corte popular, con motivos y símbolos de la liturgia cristiana.

A esta obra debemos una visión más equilibrada de una vasta polémica: la discusión que contrasta -de 1750 a 1900- una América débil e inferior con una Europa madura y fuerte. Así aparece la defensa de los habitantes del continente americano, quienes le darán a la disputa un tono de encendido debate espiritual.

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