Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

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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...

Estamos ante un aporte original al conocimiento de un ciclo histórico que se inició en la Argentina con el golpe de Estado de 1955 y finalizó con la interrupción de la democracia constitucional de 1976, seguida por el genocidio que alcanzó a las fuerzas estudiantiles que este período vio nacer y florecer. Estos años, marcados por una gran conflictividad social que ocasionó una creciente inestabilidad política, conforman uno de los grandes debates actuales de la ciencia social argentina y suscitan en general un inmenso interés político, como lo pone en evidencia la creciente...

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