The Nirex Collection: Diplomacy in revolution

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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...

Este libro aborda el estudio del republicanismo en Bilbao desde su aparición en el Sexenio Democrático hasta su extinción ante las tropas franquistas. Analiza la evolución político-ideológica del republicanismo bilbaíno y los partidos que conformaron el panorama republicano, acercándose a sus formas de sociabilidad y organizaciones paralelas. A continuación estudia la élite política republicana en 173 personajes que ostentaron algún cargo público y realiza un estudio de sociología electoral con el fin de analizar el componente social del voto republicano. Por último se adentra...

Terminada la contienda, los nazis fugados de Alemania contaron con el apoyo explícito y directo de las autoridades franquistas, o de hombres destacados de Falange, para escapar de los tribunales de justicia Aliados. La Costa del Sol puede tener el dudoso orgullo de haber sido refugio y residencia de célebres nazis. Algunos, prófugos sin haber podido ser juzgados en su país como autores o responsables directos de horribles crímenes; otros, que fueron juzgados, pero huyeron antes de cumplir condena; y, en fin, prácticamente todos ellos, que siguieron negando el delito de genocidio...