La belle époque chilena

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Estudio historico sobre las acciones guerrilleras y subversivas que ha dirigido Castro en America Latina, principalmente en Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Bolivia, Republica Dominicana y Uruguay."

Inscrito en la perspectiva de los estudios poscoloniales, este trabajo parte del supuesto de que la violencia ejercida por el colonialismo europeo en el mundo no fue solo física y económica sino también "epistémica". El autor defiende la tesis de que hacia finales del siglo XVIII, la violencia epistémica del imperio español en América asume una forma específica: la hybris del punto cero. Es el momento en que la irrupción mundial del capitalismo exigía que la multiplicidad de expresiones culturales del planeta fuera traducida como una serie de diferencias ordenadas en el tiempo. Las...

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...