Los nombres de nuestros vecinos. Sanlúcar la Mayor (1936-1942)

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...

A mas de sesenta anos del falso final de la Guerra Civil, el presente libro repasa la literatura y la cinematografia mas significativas sobre la guerra y analiza algunos de los mitos y distorsiones mas comunes aun vigentes: su inevitabilidad, la leyenda de Badajoz, la gesta del Alcazar, Madrid como capital de la gloria y del dolor, el papel de sus intelectuales, la confusa cuestion de la memoria y el olvido, etc.

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Se trata de una exhaustiva investigación, reveladora de los pormenores de la trata africana y sus consecuencias en todos los ámbitos –sobre todo las implicaciones sociales y económicas— en América. Se describe la tragedia humana que representó la esclavitud, la larga lucha por la abolición, la participación de los africanos y sus descendientes en las guerras de independencia, sus aportes culturales y los rasgos de discriminación contra los cuales, aún hoy, se lucha en nuestras latitudes.