Miradas a la historia

The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those Puerto Rican migrants who established themselves in New York City between the 1890s and the end of World War II-we capture a glimpse of their daily lives and of their individual and collective stories. This rich collection of images from the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College helps to examine the history of the Puerto Rican community at a time when it was spreading its roots in New York City's social, political,...

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.

El asesinato del obispo Juan Gerardi estremeció a Guatemala en la madrugada del 27 de abril de 1998 y casi inmediatamente partió al país en dos. Por un lado, estaban aquellos que lo consideraron un crimen político, ligado a la presentación dos días antes del informe Guatemala: nunca más, y por el otro, aquellos que preferían verlo como un sórdido hecho de violencia común. A partir de la investigación y el juicio que siguieron al asesinato, se han escrito varios libros que defienden una u otra versión del crimen. Sin importar el rigor de estas obras, o incluso si las han leído o...

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...