En guerra con el pasado

Durante la Guerra de la Independencia, miles de españoles de toda clase y condición social abandonaron los campos y trabajos que les proporcionaban sustento y se organizaron subversiva y espontáneamente, al margen de las viejas y deslegitimadas instituciones de poder, en grupos heterogéneos que castigaron una y otra vez durante años al hasta entonces invencible ejército francés. Al frente de esa gran aportación española a la moderna táctica militar "-a guerra de guerrillas- se situó toda una generación de líderes surgidos del pueblo llano que con escasos efectivos consiguió...

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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...

Se reunen aquí un conjunto de informaciones necesarias para el historiador y útiles para el lector general: una cronología sistematica de nuestra historia, más de 200 gráficos y estadísticas de economía y sociedad, 200 mapas que reflejan acontecimientos, divisiones políticas, etc., relaciones detalladas de las distintas instituciones políticas y sus componentes, y la correspondencia entre los distintos calendarios utilizados en nuestra historia y los pesos y medidas.