El taller del historiador

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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

La historia de Nayarit muestra rasgos muy particulares del occidente del país, justamente allí donde el altiplano "se deshace en tierras húmedas y calientes y se despeña en barrancas interminables" para dar paso a la diversidad característica dominante del clima que define una serie de pequeñas regiones distintas entre sí. Esta obra prolonga el Estudio histórico del estado de Nayarit, de Everardo Peña Navarro, publicado entre 1946 y 1955, y es resultado de numerosos libros y artículos que han desentrañado el devenir de la entidad.

A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.