Rischio, catastrofe e gestione dell’emergenza nel Mediterraneo occidentale e in Ispanoamerica in età moderna : omaggio a Jean-Philippe Luis

La construcción de grandes presas ha desarraigado a millones de personas en el mundo rural. En España no hay datos oficiales, pero se estima que han desaparecido bajo el agua cientos de pueblos e innumerables huertas habitadas, hoy olvidadas. Detendrán mi río evoca, con aire de fábula y rigor de reportaje antropológico, el mundo desaparecido de Cauvaca, una huerta aragonesa que estuvo llena de vida hasta que la inundó el embalse de Mequinenza. Es la historia de Mercedes, una niña que puede predecir la lluvia con su cinturón de serpiente y que hoy recuerda con nostalgia el escenario...

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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...

“Con Breve Historia de los cátaros conocerá la historia de una secta herética que supo aprovechar su momento histórico para crear una nueva religión basada en el cristianismo primigenio y que hizo que la Iglesia emprendiera una cruzada para reprimirla, por primera vez desde una doble óptica: la perspectiva francesa y el punto de vista catalano-aragonés.” (Web Novedades con historia) “Los dos autores de Breve Historia de los Cátaros, abordan cada tema mencionado de manera apasionante mostrándonos a grandes reyes, siniestros inquisidores, cátaros puros e intereses...