El Castillo de San Severino: im‡genes de historia

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...

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NUEVA VERSIÓN, MUY AMPLIADA, DE EL PRIVILEGIO CATALÁN He aquí la explosiva situación actual: un golpe de Estado todavía latente, unos gobernantes separatistas que proclaman casi diariamente su intención de volver a dar otro en cuanto puedan y cientos de miles de catalanes en constante agitación debido a que la intoxicación mediática ha conseguido convencerles de que los políticos procesados por vulnerar el código penal son presos políticos, encarcelados por su ideología. Pero todo esto no es nuevo, ni surgió con la Constitución de 1978, ni con el régimen franquista, ni con el...

[Italiano]: Il libro è il primo risultato di un progetto di ricerca interdisciplinare e internazionale sui disastri di origine naturale verificatisi nei territori governati dalle monarchie borboniche tra il XVIII secolo e l’inizio del XIX. I dodici saggi che lo compongono esplorano le strategie e le pratiche attraverso cui istituzioni e società cercarono di gestire, mitigare e prevenire gli effetti catastrofici di eruzioni, terremoti, inondazioni, carestie ed epidemie, in territori geograficamente lontani e diversi tra loro – dal Mediterraneo occidentale all’America centrale e...