España en la memoria de tres generaciones

Jean Sarrailh nos muestra como en el siglo XVIII conocio Espana las aventuras espirituales de las demas naciones europeas, y descubre el esfuerzo de punado de hombres ilustrados empenados en lograr la prosperidad, la cultura y la dignidad para su patria, sacudiendo viejos prejuicios como: Jovellanos, Cabarrus, el conde Campomanes y Cavanilles, entre otros.

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

Entre los tópicos acerca del origen de la guerra civil española ninguno hay más repetido, y menos fundamentado, que el que sostiene que todo comenzó como respuesta a la escalada revolucionaria que se produjo durante los meses que siguieron al triunfo electoral del Frente Popular, en febrero de 1936. Una escalada en que, según este tópico, asumen un papel principal las invasiones de tierras por parte de los campesinos extremeños. Este libro de Francisco Espinosa explora por primera vez de manera seria y documentada lo que sucedió en aquellos meses de 1936 y demuestra la falsedad de la...

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