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La Memoria justificativa (1832), texto clásico del pensamiento de la burguesía liberal donostiarra, fue escrita en respuesta a las acusaciones vertidas contra la ciudad en la Junta Particular de Azpeitia, censurando su crítica al régimen foral. La necesidad de introducir modificaciones que permitieran reactivar su abatido comercio motivó la revisión los Fueros, afirmando su mutabilidad y denunciando que tras su foralismo se escondía la defensa de los intereses de su élite dirigente. La Memoria justificativa muestra también otro modo de concebir la hermandad provincial y su relación...

La Guerra Civil española constituye un acontecimiento decisivo de la historia contemporánea de Europa y un capítulo fundamental de la memoria histórica de los españoles. A ras de suelo ofrece una nueva interpretación de aquel conflicto, desde la perspecti

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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...