Barridos por el viento

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Pocos como los historiadores se han preocupado tanto de forjar identidades a lo largo del planeta. El pasado podemos usarlo casi para cualquier cosa que se desee hacer en el presente. Con responsabilidad para obtener reafirmación, lecciones o consejos y para abusar de él, para crear mentiras sobre un pasado que nunca existió, alimentar el narcisismo colectivo o escribir historias desde una única perspectiva. Los usos y abusos de la historia dan para mucho. En esta obra Margaret Mead trata del modo en que se usa la Historia y en que se abusa de ella, en que se la manipula para justificar...

Avatares de uno de los últimos empresarios de la industria del tabaco puertorriqueña, en que el drama familiar se une a los efectos de una macroeconomía signada por el avance avasallador de la modernización. Relatada a partir de cartas familiares, el estudio de una impresionante masa documental de la época, su autora, nieta de aquel personaje de fábula, nos ofrece en este libro un inolvidable, nuevo y criollo relato sobre héroes ... y tumbas.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...