El Boleo: Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, 1885-1954

El estudio de Juan Manuel Romero Gil sobre "El Boleo" de 1885 a 1954 está en la tradición de una nueva historia de la minería. Sin descuidar o ignorar la historia tradicional del descubrimiento y apertura de El Boleo, él examina por primera vez a profundidad muchas facetas interconectadas en la evolución de esa empresa: los mercados, la tecnología, el fínanciamiento internacional, los problemas de transportación, las actitudes gubernamentales, el reclutamiento obrero, las condiciones de vida, y las diversas fuerzas laborales que trabajaron en las casi insoportables condiciones de la...

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Tres etapas consecutivas. La primera mitad del siglo; entre 1950 y 1975 y desde 1975 hasta la fecha; produce la secuencia de ideas sobre España que se actualizan en esta lección: un país; un país marcado por el fracaso y, en ese sentido, diferente; y un país normal, aunque no en crisis de identidad.

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

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