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A Cuban City, Segregated
A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity that defined the city’s population, the urban landscape was characterized by distinctive racial boundaries, separating the white city center from the heterogeneous peripheries. A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century explores how the de facto racial segregation was constructed and perpetuated in a society devoid of explicitly racial laws. Drawin...
Les grandes usines
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Les grandes usines
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Ni cap ni peus
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El indiano
A principios del XIX, Pedro Guarch consigue hacer fortuna en Venezuela, cuando por azar logra rescatar un importante envío de esclavos de un naufragio. Gracias a ello levantará la mayor hacienda azucarera de Puerto Rico para regresar a Barcelona como un auténtico indiano, y contraer matrimonio con Bella Salom, una hermosa dama de la alta sociedad barcelonesa. Tras éxitos literarios como El Talmud de Viena o El Testamento armenio, el autor logra con este libro un impresionante fresco histórico sobre la sociedad española y, especialmente, la burguesía catalana de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, ya que gran parte del comercio con Cuba y Puerto Rico pertenecía a empresarios y financieros...
Historia de Álava
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