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Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as Vicuñas. At stake were the world’s richest silver mines, a means to wealth and power in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. As mines flooded and Indigenous workers died or fled, the city descended into a maelstrom of swordfights, gun battles, ambushes, sniper attacks, and summary executions. Though its roots were economic, the Basque-Vicuña conflict strained the sinews of Habsburg global governance even as i...
HERÁLDICA Y GENEALOGÍA DE CABRA DE CÓRDOBA, DOÑA MENCÍA Y MONTURQUE Y DE SUS ENLACES (SS. XV-XIX). TOMO II
Estudio genealógico y heráldico de más de 1400 apellidos en la comarca de la Subbética Cordobesa y en especial en las localidades de Cabra, Doña Mencía y Monturque, así como noticias de estos apellidos en otras localidades andaluzas. Se incluye un armorial con las fotografías de más de 200 escudos sacados de piedras armeras, capillas, enterramientos, cuadros y expedientes nobiliarios. El tomo II incluye los apéndices y las fotografías.
