Jacques Derrida y las humanidades

Escombros, ceniza y huesos, esto son los restos que a menudo nos encontramos al explorar un antiguo campo de batalla o las ruinas de una aldea, tierra arrasada que esconde miles de historias, desde los últimos suspiros de un soldado caído a los gritos ahogados de una familia asolada por la guerra. A menudo el rápido suceso de acontecimientos que comprendemos como historia nos ha entumecido a estas realidades traumáticas, desvinculándonos de la violencia y sufrimiento que abarca y que raras veces nos conmociona. Solemos olvidar que detrás de la destrucción y la barbarie se encuentran...

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...

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Obra lujosamente editada en gran formato, con numerosas ilustraciones a color; parte esencial del contenido. Da una visión general de la realidad histórica americana en los siglos XVI y XVII desde una óptica renovada e integradora que abarca todos los campos temáticos: sociedad, población, economía, instituciones, iglesia, arte, urbanismo, etc.