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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...

LOS CAPELLI narra la saga de inmigrantes italianos desde 1850 hasta los anos 1960. Primero con la construccion del Ferrocarril, mas tarde el Canal Frances de 1880 a 1888, y finalmente el Canal de Panama de 1904 a 1914."

Estudio que examina los cambios que introdujo el peronismo en el ordenamiento doméstico desde una perspectiva aún no explorada: las dinámicas familiares situadas al margen del modelo normativo, en especial la filiación ilegítima; es decir, relaciones familiares reñidas con el modelo homogéneo y excluyente del matrimonio con hijos. Basándose en discursos, artículos de prensa, correspondencia y películas, la autora recorre las diferentes formas de organización familiar e investiga los estigmas asociados a los nacimientos "irregulares".

A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young...