Nuevos ricos, nuevos pobres y nueva Rusia

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

La historia de enfermos, enfermedades y médicos desde la Conquista hasta 1906. Males de héroes, próceres y de quienes no lo fueron tanto.

Recopilacion de historias, personas y anecdotas del antiguo poblado de Convento Viejo, lugar que desaparecio bajos las aguas de la construccion del Embalse Convento Viejo en Chile."

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