La cara oculta de China

Este libro está integrado por un largo ensayo del autor sobre las condiciones de vida y de trabajo en las haciendas porfirianas, y por nueve testimonios, que se presentan en apéndices, acerca de las condiciones sociales imperantes en las haciendas mexicanas a fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX. El autor analiza las variantes regionales en las condiciones de trabajo y busca determinar la difusión e importancia del peonaje por deudas y las circunstancias en que se empleaba este peonaje.

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...

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La cultura antigua que más misterio ha suscitado se presenta en este tomo desde todas sus perspectivas analizando el papel geográfico del Nilo, la figura todopoderosa del faraón, la estructura social y política, la visión religiosa del mundo, su cultura, escritura y la vida del pueblo llano.