Jornaleros y mancebos

Se gana tiempo, es decir se trabaja con claridad, amplitud y diligencia cuando se hace la historia de un edificio. Ya lo demostró el autor reconstruyendo las historias complejas del actual palacio de gobierno y de lo que fueron las alhóndigas de San Luis Potosí. Pero esta vez no se trata de piedra y poder, de adobe y maíz, sino de piedra y madero, aquí el venerable Lignum Crucis.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

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...

Este ensayo explora, desde una perspectiva transatlántica y transhemisférica, el horizonte utópico de la emancipación de las colonias de Hispanoamérica. No se enfoca en la utopía como género literario, ni propone un inventario de las obras utópicas del período. Se trata aquí de cartografiar la dinámica utópica misma, iluminando las múltiples formas en que la imaginación utópica va generando y transformando el pensamiento de la Emancipación, en un juego incesante de viajes y de exilios, conspiraciones y programas políticos, en el cual convergen, en tensión perpetua, la razón ...