Diccionario geografico-estadistico de España y Portugal por Sebastian de Miñano;

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Valencia experimentó, entre 1875 y 1910, varias reformas urbanas que se pueden relacionar con diversas percepciones sociales del estado de la ciudad a través del estudio de dos espacios neurálgicos: la plaza del Mercado y el entorno de los solares de San Francisco. Al igual que ocurrió en otras urbes europeas, las autoridades valencianas, siguiendo las corrientes higienistas, plantearon el derribo de barrios y la construcción de grandes vías e infraestructuras municipales, transformaciones en las que influyeron distintas formas de estigmatización social de la pobreza y de los oficios...

11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896–1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012–2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.

A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean...