Historia económica de la Argentina

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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...

M Jose Collantes de Teran de la Hera es Profesora Titular de Historia del Derecho de la Universidad de Cadiz, aunque actualmente se encuentra en comision de servicios en la Universidad Pablo Olavide de Sevilla. Por su pertenencia al Grupo de Investigacion "Delincuencia y represion juridica en Espana: Teoria y praxis historica de las figuras delictivas," financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, su linea actual de investigacion se centra en el Derecho penal historico. En este ambito ya habia hecho algunas incursiones en anos anteriores, fruto de las cuales fueron algunas...

Este libro ofrece uno de los primeros estudios pormenorizados sobre las relaciones humano-ambientales de una pequeña comunidad austronesia de Melanesia insular: las islas Torres, situadas en una gran frontera marítima entre Vanuatu e Islas Salomón. A través de una minuciosa exploración histórica y antropológica de los conceptos de persona, territorio y medio ambiente en Islas Torres, el autor explica cómo los habitantes de este complejo microcosmos oceánico, este "entramado de islas", se producen a sí mismos y su mundo.