Republicanos en Bilbao (1868-1937)

El presente libro es resultado de una investigación histórica que aporta sobre las migraciones extranjeras a Colombia y en este caso particular sobre los inmigrantes de la India Oriental. En la segunda década del siglo xx se asentaron en las poblaciones intermedias del valle geográfico del río Cauca un grupo de jóvenes inmigrantes indostanos, de religión musulmana, que en la segunda década del siglo xx se asentaron en las poblaciones intermedias del valle geográfico del río Cauca, unos, definitivamente, otros temporalmente, para dedicarse a la actividad comercial que demandaba la...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Ernest Gellner hace en esta obra un replanteamiento total de la historia de la civilización occidental sin desdeñar los aspectos religiosos o bélicos; incluso las causas de la violencia humana se infieren de la exposición de las necesidades del hombre desde sus más tempranos intentos por asociarse, organizarse y jerarquizarse. Desde los más sencillos agrupamientos humanos, como los clanes o tribus, el autor revisa el papel cambiante de la simbología conceptual.

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...