Un continente en movimiento

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...

La Historia del Almirante reúne una sucinta biografía de Cristóbal Colón y una extensa relación de sus cuatro viajes a América. Escrito por su hijo Hernando Colón, el texto destaca por la impronta de velado misterio y fascinante aventura, lejos de configurarse como una acumulación de datos históricos. Aunque la obra ha sido objeto de polémica por la dudosa autoría del apartado biográfico y el enaltecimiento de la figura del Almirante, no cabe duda de que este libro es «un texto fundamental para la historiografía del descubrimiento», como lo demuestra el prólogo de Pedro Insua...

Just a few times before in Mexico had been analyzed the relation between the church, national identity and state like in this work. The author offers an essay with the relation between politics, religious toughs and the struggles to establish a new politic system between the Independence and the Reform. This book also contains a study of the presence of religion in the political life and daily life and how it influences in the structure of the national identity.

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