Tour d’afrique

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro es una breve síntesis de la historia de Chile. Comprende desde el poblamiento americano, los pueblos y culturas aborígenes de Chile, pasando por la llegada de los españoles, la Conquista, el Estado, la economía y la sociedad coloniales, el proceso de la Independencia y la organización de la República, hasta la expansión y la crisis de la sociedad liberal en el siglo XIX; la evolución del país en el siglo XX y los importantes desarrollos políticos de los últimos años.

¿Cómo se produce el surgimiento, auge, decaimiento, crisis, privatización y modernización de los ferrocarriles en México? En la presente y breve síntesis histórica se da respuesta a éstas y otras muchas más preguntas sobre el desempeño de los ferrocarriles como sistema público y como empresa privada, hasta llegar a los temas actuales en que se proyectan nuevas y modernas líneas de trenes rápidos de pasajeros y turismo.