La edad de oro de los virreyes

La presente obra consiste en una sucinta colección de bytes históricos que, en algunos pasajes, pone en tela de juicio leyendas urbanas relacionados con la historia de los Estados Unidos; en otros, ilustra algunos sucesos históricos poco notorios y ofrece un enfoque diferente sobre algunos hechos conocidos.

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Este libro constituye el primer acercamiento, desde un enfoque metodológico multidisciplinar que combina los análisis jurídico e histórico-político, a todo el complejo proceso de profundísimos cambios que, en el ámbito político-militar, se abre en España con la ruptura revolucionaria que generan la invasión napoleónica y la guerra de la Independencia. Tras un primer capítulo introductorio, relativo al horizonte militar del Antiguo Régimen, tanto en la monarquía borbónica española como en el escenario europeo comparado, la obra se articula en dos partes. En la primera, que se...

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...