Michael Jackson

Este libro constituye un primer corte en la investigación que realiza un equipo de especialistas de distintas disciplinas académicas con el propósito de descifrar las relaciones entre la institución sociopolítica llamada altepetl y el territorio en el que se asentó. del mismo modo, se estudian los elementos del paisaje cultural que se produjo en el tránsito de la época prehispánica a la colonial. el estudio arroja resultados interesantes como el hecho de que muchas de las características del altepetl mesoamericano continúen vivas en el México rural de tradición indígena en pleno ...

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...

En gran parte desconocida por los propios españoles, la gesta de la exploración, conquista y defensa que llevó a cabo España en lo que hoy son los Estados Unidos de América supone un acontecimiento histórico capital. Durante trescientos años, soldados, navegantes, misioneros, colonos y descubridores al servicio de España plantaron sus banderas en fuertes, poblados, misiones y ciudades repartidos por toda América del Norte, desde los límites de México hasta la frontera canadiense y Alaska. Españoles fueron los primeros europeos que avistaron el Cañón del Colorado, cruzaron el...

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