Del 1640 al 1705

La religión del Antiguo Egipto nos ofrece una impresionante serie de dioses, muchos de ellos con extrañas apariencias, medio humanos y medio animales. Todos los rituales de los templos, las prácticas funerarias y los ritos destinados a prevenir peligros y enfermedades parecen muy alejados del mundo occidental y su culto a la ciencia y a la racionalidad. En La Antigua Religión Egipcia, el autor se propone situar los textos, imágenes y objetos de la religión faraónica en el contexto del mundo que los produjo. Pueden ser considerados como respuestas humanas a determinadas condiciones...

Un magnífico ensayo sobre el fascinante papel del valido en la Europa de la era moderna. En los siglos XVI y XVII observadores ingleses, españoles, franceses y de otras naciones europeas se mostraban alarmados ante la creciente influencia de los validos, favoritos o ministros-favoritos. Estos personajes parecían estar usurpando competencias y obligaciones normalmente ejercidas por los monarcas. En este libro pionero, un grupo de ilustres historiadores internacionales -entre los que figuran Laurence Brockliss, Jonathan Brown, John H. Elliott, Antonio Feros, Marc Fumaroli y I.A.A. Thompson-...

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...

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