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Las grandes incógnitas de la Antigüedad y el Medievo, que desde siempre han despertado nuestra curiosidad más innata, reunidas en un solo libro, en el que estos enigmas serán resueltos de forma amena y tratados con celosa rigurosidad. Diez enigmas de la Historia Antigua y Medieval aparentemente sin conexión entre sí, que se suceden a lo largo del hilo temporal y que, sorprendentemente, los principales hechos narrados en ellos tienen un mismo motor: el anhelo de Occidente por la conquista de Oriente.

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...

Esta obra colectiva estudia los cambios revolucionarios que se produjeron en el mundo hispano durante los siglos XIX y XX. Los autores presentan una magnífica perspectiva histórica que engloba dialécticamente la relación entre España y la pluralidad de las repúblicas americanas surgidas a partir de estos movimientos.