La historia a través del cine

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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 no trata sobre la historia canónica de Nueva York. No hay inmigrantes pobres que dan la vuelta a su fortuna, ni filántropos dadivosos inaugurando hospitales, ni bardos que gloriquen sus rascacielos. Este libro es más bien un desfile de rufianes —en bandas callejeras, en partidos políticos o en uniforme de policía— y de desheredados —quienes quedaron en la cara oculta del progreso por convicción o porque no les quedó otra—. Y también es un libro sobre los callejones y las casas de vecindad por las que arrastraron su vida y se divirtieron desde 1840 a 1919. Una...

De Peter Cozzens, autor del exitoso La tierra llora. La amarga historia de las Guerras Indias por la conquista del Oeste , llega la extraordinaria historia de dos hermanos de la tribu shawnee, Tecumseh y Tenskwatawa, artífices de la mayor confederación india de la historia de los Estados Unidos, capaz de poner en jaque a la recién nacida república. Con los colonos desbordando los Apalaches, en un frenesí por explotar las tierras ganadas a los británicos que obviaba cualquier tratado y cualquier derecho de sus moradores indios, Tecumseh y su hermano trataron de galvanizar a estos para...