The Nirex Collection: Diplomacy in revolution

Desde la prehistoria de Sevilla hasta la ciudad cristiana y visigoda, se estudian con rigor científico los orígenes y el devenir de una trayectoria histórica que llega hasta la ocupación musulmana de la ciudad; todo ello sin perder el tono divulgativo y la riqueza expresiva del autor, figura señera de la Arqueología.

New contacts between Spain and Jewish communities, especially Sephardic, were established during the Moroccan campaign (1859-60) and through diplomatic activity in the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the time of the pogroms (1881-82), starting a public debate on the possibility of a return of the Jews to Spain. The Sagasta government and the liberals wanted to capitalize on the Jewish issue in order to forge an image of openness and Europeanism, and to attract Jewish capital. The conservative opposition, while recognizing the Jewish contribution to Spanish culture and condemning antisemitism,...

En breves e irreverentes anécdotas, en las que la acidez y el humor se desbordan sin timidez, México bizarro retrata un país tan surrealista que lo mismo tiene sabor a chiste que a pesadilla. En sus páginas se encuentran episodios como aquel en que una vidente fue contratada por un fiscal para resolver un homicidio, el exótico cortejo fúnebre a la pierna de Santa Anna, la huelga de hambre de un expresidente que dejó al país en la quiebra, la rodilla que Sara García se fracturó a propósito para ser la eterna abuela del cine, la trágica vida de la Mataviejitas y la funesta ocasión...

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...