Alemania de Weimar

Este libro viene a cubrir un vacio en la historia del cautiverio en la America hispanica. Para recuperar las voces de aquellos cautivos (blancos, mestizos, mulatos, criollos y otros) capturados por indios en algun lugar del vasto continente y que convivieron durante ciertos periodos con sus captrores, Fernando Opere, director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericano de la Universidad de Virginia, ha trabajado un amplio y rico material que incluye relatos de los mismos cautivos; sus historias presentes en los textos de cronicas, y otros documentos, para terminar con un brillante ensayo sobre...

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Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

El libro incluye ocho estudios dedicados a la historia prehispánica y colonial del actual territorio del Estado de México, además de temas ligados con la historia mexiquense. La primera parte abarca la historia indígena vinculada al periodo prehispánico y comprende seis capítulos con temas como: "Otomianos y nahuas: antiguos pobladores del Centro de México". "La presencia teotihuacana en la región lacustre del valle de Toluca". En otro capítulo se desentraña la identidad de la Sirena, ser mencionado en los relatos contemporáneos y la etnografía de la zona del Alto Lerma...