Venturas y desventuras con el Patrimonio Cultural (1953-1973)

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...

De la mano de dos expertos, Javier Sierra y Jesús Callejo, nos adentramos en la España más misteriosa, desconocida, inquietante y asombrosa. Desde objetos voladores no identifi cados a apariciones misteriosas, pasando por reliquias o santuarios de origen desconocido, los autores recogen las historias que viven en la memoria colectiva de este país.

Este libro ofrece una visión global de la España Imperial, desde la etapa de regencias y la llegada de Carlos I a la Península hasta el reinado de Felipe II. Tras estudiar el período de regencias, la crisis política y económica, y las revueltas de 1520-1521, el autor se centra en el análisis de la monarquía católica, en los aspectos de su organización política, administrativa e institucional, para examinar después la política imperial de Carlos I y el imperio hispánico de Felipe II, con una referencia equilibrada a la administración de las colonias. Por último, profundiza en...

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