El empeño industrial de Galicia

Goytisolo traza un retrato político y humano de José María «Blanco White», gran intelectual decimonónico y figura esencial para comprender la historia de España de los últimos doscientos años. ¿Cuál fue el crimen inexpiable de José María Blanco causante de su ostracismo y del linchamiento moral de sus compatriotas? Según Juan Goytisolo, fue el de adelantarse a su tiempo con valentía, honestidad y lucidez. Este libro da cuenta del papel que desempañó este controvertido pensador y periodista español, cuyas críticas a la política de su país tras la Guerra de Independencia le ...

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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...

Esta primera monografía de la serie tiene como base el manuscrito número 274 BNC, de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII.