La hoguera de Montsegur

En la obra se abordan diferentes capítulos encaminados para comprender la estructura arquitectónica del Palacio Plateresco del s. XVI que mandó construir el III duque de Béjar D. Francisco de Zúñiga Guzmán y Sotomayor junto a la eminente fortaleza medival. Por una parte se analizan los contextos generales (Historia, linaje de los Sotomayor, etc.) en que nace el edificio; en segundo lugar se estudia de forma detenida la biografía del titular del condado y los parámetros fundamentales (personales, históricos y económicos) que condicionan su actuación; el bloque medular del trabajo...

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La decadencia cubana contiene los ensayos de Fernando Ortiz La crisis política cubana; sus causas y remedios y La decadencia cubana, escritos en 1919 y 1924. En ellos el autor reflexiona sobre el periodo de la historia cubana conocido como el de las "Vacas gordas", en que el aumento del comercio y la subida de los precios del azúcar auguraban una Cuba próspera y optimista. Ortiz es incisivo en extremo y meticuloso en el análisis y ordenación de estadísticas que demuestran la fragilidad de los cimientos de la prosperidad cubana, y la inevitable crisis de la década de los años veinte....

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...