Vida de Pasteur

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Los últimos vestigios del Antiguo Régimen, que inútilmente pretenderán defender las antiguas clases dirigentes, quedarán barridos del escenario europeo por el empuje de las nuevas fuerzas surgidas de la revolución industrial. Aún predominan los factores de la economía tradicional: la producción agrícola es superior a la industrial; los transportes continúan siendo lentos y caros, a pesar de la creciente extensión de los ferrocarriles; las oligarquías financieras no prodigan los créditos bancarios. Pero surge, pujante, apoyada en el soporte ideológico que le ofrece el...

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...

Ante lo que parece el final del hispanismo o de una importante etapa del mismo, este libro no pretende hacer balance de la actividad de los hispanistas, ni valorar o criticar sus aportaciones –aunque es claro su papel en la elaboración de nuestra imagen,