La fabricación de un imaginario

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...

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...

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