Los hombres del Norte

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

Se abordan los diferentes aspectos constitutivos de la realidad del ámbito onubense en la baja edad media. Firmas como Ladero Quesada, Collantes de Terán o González Jiménez realizan sus aportaciones a la Historia del suroeste castellano que se ven completados por colaboraciones desde el ámbito de la arqueología, los nuevos estudios sobre la nobleza, la poliorcética o la vida religiosa. Se completa con una recogida bibliografía exhaustiva de las obras para el conocimiento histórico de este área durante la Edad Media Cristiana.

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...