Refranes Chilenos

Las islas desconocidas de España; Pedro Serrano, el náufrago que inspiró a Daniel Defoe su célebre Robinson Crusoe; el descubrimiento real de la Antártida… y otros hechos de la historia de España escasamente pregonados, o cuyo desarrollo no acaeció en modo alguno como nos lo habían contado. Tras el enorme éxito de Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de España, una obra que ha conquistado a miles de lectores, Francisco García del Junco vuelve a sorprendernos con once nuevos capítulos con los que disfrutaremos y aprenderemos sobre los aspectos menos divulgados de nuestra...

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Un mapa para descifrar el complejo itinerario constitucional de las naciones que se desprendieron de la monarquía católica española. Los constituyentes americanos y peninsulares que hace doscientos años se reunieron en el puerto de Cádiz no sólo sentaron las bases del Estado moderno a ambos lados del Atlántico, sino que inauguraron una rica tradición de pensamiento político y jurídico que llega hasta nuestros días. El bicentenario de esta tradición se celebra en medio de una notable pluralización ideológica y política en América Latina, cuya vida pública se enfrenta a la...

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