Salvador Alvarado, estadista y pensador

De Olfato. Aproximaciones a los olores en la historia de México es una colección de artículos sobre los olores y la experiencia que de ellos han tenido los sujetos individuales y colectivos a través de la historia de México en tres periodos: el prehispánico, el colonial y el contemporáneo. Representa la entrada de la historia mexicana en el campo de la historia de las sensibilidades.

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...

La dislocación del vasto virreinato peruano colonial y la construcción, sobre sus ruinas, de la moderna República del Perú constituye uno de los grandes nudos de la historia sudamericana. Este nudo está compuesto por varios hilos: los cambios profundos en la economía global, la influencia de las revoluciones atlánticas, el impacto local de la ruptura del imperio español, las mutaciones políticas que hicieron surgir una república de ciudadanos y tantos otros. Sin embargo, el hilo de la guerra, de la violencia política y de lo militar como factor determinante en el tortuoso proceso...

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