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Estados Unidos celebra sus 250 años. Quizás parezcan pocos, pero dan mucho.En este libro los historiadores de Ad Absurdum narran la historia de Estados Unidos a través de su propia experiencia durante el rodaje de un improbable documental.Anecdotas, entrevistas, accidentes e incluso mucha investigacion historica te llevaran a conocer a los primeros pobladores del continente americano, a los conquistadores españoles que dejaron su huella y a los fundadores de una nueva nacion que se convirtio en potencia mundial, atravesando sus felices años y sus grandes depresiones. Desde George Washington hasta Donald Trump, pasando por Rosa Parks o Groucho Marx, la mas asombrosa prole desfila por estas paginas.Un relato hollywoodiense e historico que solo tres murcianos perdidos en Estados Unidos podian elaborar.Esta Historia absurda de Estados Unidos ve la luz en el momento mas oportuno. Make Absurdum Great Again!El trio de Ad Absurdum defiende el territorio historico con armas que no necesitan la segunda enmienda: rigor y humor. RAQUEL MARTOS. Escritora y presentadora

La idea más extendida sobre la historia de los nativos americanos es que terminó con la masacre de Wounded Knee en 1890, donde no solo murieron ciento cincuenta siux a manos de la caballería estadounidense, sino que supuestamente tambien lo hizo la civilizacion nativa. David Treuer fusiona narrativa y reportaje para revelar que los pueblos nativos no solo han sobrevivido, sino que se han adaptado y prosperado a pesar de los esfuerzos sistematicos por borrar su cultura. Treuer replantea la historia de los nativos americanos como una historia de resistencia y continuidad, desafiando las narrativas de desaparicion y derrota. Explora como las confiscaciones de tierras dieron lugar a maniobras legales y politicas cada vez mas sofisticadas que desmentian el mito de que los indios no conocen ni se preocupan por la propiedad, o como la asimilacion forzosa de sus hijos en internados gestionados por el Gobierno incubo una identidad nativa unificadora.

Este libro explora cómo los rituales sacrificiales nahuas fueron representados en las narrativas de la expansión transatlántica española. A partir de crónicas, códices, tratados y obras religiosas en español y nahuatl, el libro revela como las epistemologias indigenas influyeron en estas descripciones, desafiando la vision colonial que redujo el sacrificio humano a un signo de barbarie.Organizado en cuatro capitulos archivo, espacio, tiempo y participantes el libro analiza la incorporacion del sacrificio en el archivo colonial, la conceptualizacion de los espacios rituales, la integracion de las nociones nahuas del tiempo y la representacion de los actores en los escenarios sacrificiales. Mas alla de desmontar estereotipos, la investigacion evidencia como los conceptos nahuas de destruccion, transformacion y regeneracion sobrevivieron en la escritura colonial. En suma, esta obra redefine la violencia ritual como un fenomeno compartido entre las tradiciones indigenas y europeas, cuestionando su percepcion como practica exclusivamente barbara.

En noviembre de 1863, en Los Llanos de La Rioja, la historia argentina alcanza uno de sus momentos más brutales. Ángel Vicente "el Chacho" Peñaloza, un caudillo clave del federalismo, es derrotado, perseguido y asesinado de forma salvaje por las fuerzas que buscaban imponer el nuevo orden nacional. Su muerte lanceado, degollado y su cabeza exhibida para escarmiento no fue solo el final de un hombre, sino el simbolo de una epoca que se cerraba con sangre. En El Chacho. El mas humano de los caudillos, el historiador riojano Victor Hugo Robledo reconstruye con minuciosidad historica y potencia narrativa la vida y el destino de aquel lider popular que, desde Los Llanos riojanos, desafio al proyecto politico que comenzaba a organizar el Estado argentino. Gauchos, montoneras, traiciones y persecuciones componen el mosaico de una tragedia nacional. Este libro devuelve al Chacho su dimension humana: un caudillo amado por su gente, respetado por sus enemigos y finalmente convertido en martir de un conflicto mas profundo entre civilizacion y poder, entre provincias y centralismo. "Su historia no es solo la de una derrota. Es tambien la memoria de un pais que se construyo entre guerras civiles, silencios y disputas por el sentido de la Nacion. El Chacho es una investigacion solida y conmovedora que interpela el relato oficial y que nos convoca a revisar los cimientos de la Argentina. Se trata de un libro imprescindible para comprender como se construyo este Estado y a que costo humano. El caudillo riojano y sus gauchos fueron asesinados para terminar de imponer un sistema politico, economico y social que se denomino proceso de organizacion nacional. Quizas no tenian ese fin sus ejecutores, pero si sus autores intelectuales" (Henan Brienza).

En 1902 arribó a las librerías cariocas un libro titulado Os sertões (Los sertones). Su autor, Euclides da Cunha, un ingeniero militar que había sido enviado como corresponsal a la guerra de Canudos,

Este volumen de ensayos históricos, editado por Mercedes Montero y Santiago Martínez Sánchez, ofrece una visión completa y multifacética del Opus Dei en España a lo largo de un período crucial: desde el final de la Guerra Civil (1939) hasta las puertas de la consolidacion democratica (1983). La obra se estructura en tres ejes fundamentales que analizan como la institucion moldeo y fue moldeada por su contexto: las percepciones de la Obra por parte de la jerarquia eclesiastica (obispos, parrocos), las elites politicas (Falange, gobiernos de Franco) y la sociedad; el papel de las mujeres dentro de la institucion y los desafios a los que se enfrentaron durante estas decadas de profundos cambios sociales; y los retos internos y externos que la organizacion afronto durante la dictadura franquista y la posterior Transicion, incluyendo su participacion en el poder y su evolucion doctrinal. A traves de una rigurosa investigacion basada en nuevas fuentes documentales, esta obra resulta indispensable para comprender la compleja relacion entre religion, poder y sociedad en la España contemporanea, asi como el impacto de una de las instituciones mas influyentes de la Iglesia catolica en el siglo XX.

What happens when the newly formed government of the United States imposes a crushing tax on the exact citizens who just fought a bloody revolution to escape taxation? The result was the Whiskey Rebellion, a violent agrarian uprising that forced President George Washington to mount a horse and lead an army against his own people.In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton pushed through a federal excise tax on distilled spirits to pay off national war debts. For isolated frontier farmers in Pennsylvania, whiskey was not just a luxury; it was the primary medium of currency and economic survival. Infuriated by this eastern elite mandate, farmers launched a vicious insurgency, tarring and feathering tax collectors, burning homes, and threatening to secede from the new republic. Washington responded by mobilizing 13,000 militia troops to physically crush the dissent.This deep political and economic analysis explores the fragile infancy of the American experiment. It documents the severe class divide between coastal bankers and rural frontiersmen, the limits of constitutional authority, and the brutal establishment of federal supremacy.Witness the birth of federal enforcement. The Whiskey Rebellion proves that the survival of the early United States relied just as much on domestic military suppression as it did on democratic ideals.

How does a simple, peaceful labor rally demanding an eight-hour workday end with a bomb blast, police firing into crowds, and the execution of men who never even threw the explosive? The Haymarket Affair of 1886 remains one of the most controversial and globally consequential events in the history of labor rights.During a rainy evening strike in Chicago, an unknown assailant threw a stick of dynamite into the ranks of advancing police officers. In the ensuing chaos and blinding smoke, police fired wildly, killing both protestors and their own men. The political establishment immediately weaponized the tragedy. Without a shred of physical evidence linking them to the bomb, eight prominent labor organizers and anarchists were subjected to a heavily biased, hysterical show trial and sentenced to death simply for their political beliefs.This rigorous historical investigation uncovers the brutal suppression of the working class. It explores the rampant xenophobia against immigrant laborers, the corrupt judicial proceedings, and the creation of May Day as a global day of worker solidarity.Unmask the machinery of political persecution. The Haymarket Affair demonstrates how swiftly governments will abandon justice to violently crush economic dissent.

What happens when a wooden passenger ship, loaded with women and children for a church picnic, catches fire in the middle of a major river, and the safety equipment turns out to be entirely fake? The burning of the PS General Slocum in 1904 remains the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in New Yorks history.As a fire erupted in the lamp room, the horrific reality of corporate cost-cutting became apparent. The fire hoses were rotten and burst instantly under water pressure. Worse, the cork inside the ships life preservers had been secretly replaced with cheap, heavy iron bars to meet weight regulations, causing victims who wore them to sink like stones. Over a thousand people perished in the East River, completely devastating the thriving immigrant neighborhood of "Little Germany," which subsequently dissolved from collective grief.This heartbreaking historical account dissects the lethal corruption of the maritime industry. It documents the cowardice of the captain, the fraudulent safety inspections, and the permanent sociological erasure of an entire cultural enclave in Manhattan.Navigate the darkest waters of corporate greed. The General Slocum disaster stands as a profound warning about the horrific human cost of fake compliance and industrial negligence.

What happens when an uninspected, decaying earthen dam built for a defunct power plant is left to quietly rot above a college campus? The terrifying answer came crashing down in the dead of night during the Kelly Barnes Dam disaster of 1977, resulting in an apocalyptic localized mega-flood.Originally constructed in the late 19th century, the dam had been clumsily modified and completely abandoned by regulatory agencies. During a period of unusually heavy, relentless rainfall, the saturated earth simply gave way. A towering, thirty-foot wall of water, mud, and shattered trees roared through the campus of Toccoa Falls College while the students slept, instantly destroying dormitories and claiming thirty-nine lives in a matter of terrifying minutes.This rigorous geotechnical investigation dissects the anatomy of a preventable catastrophe. It explores the physics of soil liquefaction, the horrific bureaucratic blind spots that allowed the dam to evade state inspection, and the swift federal legislative backlash that finally mandated nationwide safety protocols.Step into the path of an unstoppable force. The Kelly Barnes tragedy exposes the deadly consequences of abandoning aging, invisible infrastructure to the slow erosion of nature.

How did a peaceful student protest against the Vietnam War on the streets of New York suddenly transform into a violent, bloody brawl perpetrated by hundreds of mobilized construction workers? The Hard Hat Riot of 1970 was not a random skirmish; it was the explosive physical manifestation of a profound cultural fracture in America.Days after the tragic Kent State shootings, anti-war students gathered in Lower Manhattan. High above them, construction workers building the World Trade Center watched with boiling resentment. Viewing the privileged students as unpatriotic and dismissive of working-class sacrifices, the workers descended from the scaffolding. Armed with hard hats and tools, they aggressively chased and beat the protestors through the financial district, while the police largely stood by and watched.This intense sociological history dissects the alienation of the American blue-collar worker. It explores the manipulation of union politics, the deep-seated class resentment toward elite universities, and how this single violent afternoon permanently realigned the political allegiances of the working class.Examine the birth of the modern culture war. The Hard Hat Riot reveals the exact, bloody moment when class loyalty violently fractured over patriotism and privilege.

What happens when an ancient, legendary warrior class realizes that the very modernization they helped initiate is now designed to completely eradicate their existence? The violent, inevitable collision of tradition and industrialization erupted in 1877 during the brutal Satsuma Rebellion.Following the Meiji Restoration, the imperial government systematically stripped the samurai of their stipends, their social status, and their exclusive right to carry swords. Driven to the absolute brink, thousands of disenfranchised samurai rallied behind their former hero, Saig Takamori. Armed largely with traditional katanas and outdated firearms, they launched a desperate, doomed insurrection against the emperors new conscript army, which was heavily armed with modern western rifles, Gatling guns, and naval artillery.This gripping military history deconstructs the death of an era. It explores the painful psychological transition from feudalism to a modern nation-state, the tragic reluctance of Saig Takamori, and the brutal battlefield logistics that proved cold industrial steel will always defeat martial honor.Step onto the muddy battlefields of a dying age. The Satsuma Rebellion is the ultimate, tragic testament to the relentless, crushing momentum of military industrialization.

How does a mundane structural engineering failure in a beverage warehouse result in a bizarre, multi-colored tsunami that floods an entire city and threatens a regional ecosystem? The 2017 Pepsi fruit juice flood in Lebedyan, Russia, is one of the most surreal and sticky industrial accidents of the modern era.Without warning, the roof of a massive PepsiCo beverage plant collapsed, completely crushing the intricate, multi-level storage racking system inside. The catastrophic structural failure instantly ruptured thousands of massive vats and pallets. The result was a 28-million-liter flash flood of mixed cherry, tomato, and pomegranate juice that blasted through the factory walls. The sticky wave flooded the surrounding city streets, trapped cars, and poured into the nearby Don River, sparking immediate panic over potential aquatic ecological damage from the massive, sudden spike in aquatic sugar levels.This fascinating logistical autopsy explores the vulnerability of liquid warehousing. It documents the physics of the racking collapse, the incredibly difficult, sticky cleanup effort required to unpave the streets, and the bizarre reality of industrial-scale food spills.Witness the sweetest disaster in logistics. The Pepsi fruit juice flood proves that when gravity defeats architecture, even the most harmless consumer goods can instantly become an unstoppable destructive force.

How did a 160-mile-long, heavily fortified strip of land, completely littered with millions of active landmines and flanked by massive standing armies, accidentally become one of the most pristine and vital ecological sanctuaries in all of Asia? The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea is a breathtaking paradox of human conflict and biological resilience.Following the armistice in 1953, a two-and-a-half-mile-wide buffer zone was established, completely halting all human habitation, agriculture, and industrial development. Left entirely undisturbed for over seven decades, nature violently reclaimed the scarred landscape. Today, the DMZ is a thriving, accidental Eden. It serves as a crucial refuge for thousands of endangered species that have been entirely eradicated from the rest of the peninsula, including the elusive Amur leopard, Asiatic black bears, and the red-crowned crane, all living peacefully among the rusted tank traps and minefields.This captivating environmental history explores the incredible regenerative power of the natural world. It documents the tense cross-border conservation efforts, the unique evolution of the local flora, and the complicated debate over what to do with the sanctuary if the peninsula ever reunites.Witness the ultimate triumph of nature over war. The DMZ proves that the most effective way to protect a fragile ecosystem is to make it utterly terrifying for humans to enter.

How does an eleven-man crew successfully infiltrate the purportedly impenetrable Brinks armored car depot in Boston, tie up the guards, and walk away with nearly three million dollars in cash, checks, and money orders without firing a single shot? The Great Brinks Robbery of 1950 was universally dubbed the "Crime of the Century" for its stunning, flawless execution.The heist was the result of agonizingly patient, low-tech surveillance. Mastermind Tony Pino and his crew spent two full years studying the building. They secretly broke into the depot at night, carefully removing the locks, taking them to a locksmith to have duplicate keys made, and reinstalling them before morning. On the night of the robbery, wearing navy peacoats and creepy rubber Halloween masks to completely obscure their identities, they simply unlocked five heavy doors, ambushed the counting room guards, and vanished with the cash in less than thirty minutes, leaving zero physical evidence behind.This engrossing true-crime narrative dissects the perfection of the analog heist. It explores the intense embarrassment of the FBI, the massive nationwide manhunt, and the tragic reality that the crew was only caught days before the statute of limitations expired because they refused to share the loot with a jailed accomplice.There is no such thing as an unbreakable vault. The Great Brinks Robbery is a masterclass in the terrifying efficiency of extreme criminal patience and preparation.

What happens when an entire American town is trapped inside a toxic, inescapable cloud of poisonous industrial gas for five continuous days, while the corporation responsible refuses to shut down its furnaces? The Donora Smog of 1948 was a deadly environmental wake-up call that violently exposed the horrific health costs of unchecked industrial manufacturing.Located in a steep river valley in Pennsylvania, the town of Donora was heavily reliant on a massive zinc works and steel mill. In late October, a freak meteorological weather pattern known as a temperature inversion trapped a layer of cold air at the bottom of the valley, preventing the factorys toxic cocktail of sulfur dioxide, hydrogen fluoride, and zinc emissions from escaping. The smog became so dense that driving was impossible and midday looked like midnight. Half the towns population fell severely ill, and 20 people suffocated to death before rain finally broke the inversion.This harrowing public health history dissects the anatomy of a preventable catastrophe. It explores the willful denial of the mill owners, the desperate makeshift triage by local doctors, and how this localized tragedy directly shocked the federal government into creating the Clean Air Act.Breathe the bitter air of progress. The Donora Smog reveals the deadly threshold where industrial prosperity crosses over into chemical suffocation.

How does a crew of elderly, retired criminalssome in their late 70s with diabetes and knee replacementsmanage to execute the most sophisticated, physically demanding, and lucrative safe deposit burglary in British legal history? The Hatton Garden Heist of 2015 was a spectacular final act by Londons aging analogue underworld against a digital world.Taking advantage of the long, quiet Easter bank holiday, the crew infiltrated the vault of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company in Londons elite diamond district. Using a heavy-duty, industrial Hilti diamond-tipped drill, they painstakingly bored a massive hole through two meters of reinforced concrete to bypass the two-ton vault door. Sweating in the dust for days, they raided 73 safety deposit boxes, vanishing with an estimated 14 million pounds in untraceable diamonds, gold, and cash before anyone even noticed the breach.This meticulous true-crime narrative dissects the logistics of old-school burglary. It documents the crews brilliant defeat of the alarm systems, their ultimate downfall due to a single overlooked CCTV camera and their inability to adapt to modern lip-reading surveillance, and the fascinating history of the London diamond trade.Respect the patience of experience. The Hatton Garden Heist proves that against the most advanced digital security in the world, the brute force of a diamond drill and pure stubbornness can still win.

How is it legally and geographically possible that an 800-square-mile wedge of land sitting right between Egypt and Sudan is claimed by absolutely no sovereign nation on Earth? The bizarre anomaly of Bir Tawil is the last true "terra nullius" outside of Antarctica, born from the absurd arrogance of British colonial mapmaking.In 1899, the British Empire drew a straight, geometric border between Egypt and Sudan. However, in 1902, they drew a second, jagged administrative border based on tribal grazing lands. This created two overlapping territories: the resource-rich Halaib Triangle and the barren Bir Tawil. Because international law dictates that a country can only claim one of the two borders, both Egypt and Sudan fiercely claim the valuable Halaib Triangle, thereby legally forcing themselves to completely disown Bir Tawil. Accepting the barren desert would mean legally surrendering the valuable coast.This fascinating geopolitical exploration deconstructs the rigid inflexibility of modern borders. It explores the hilarious attempts by eccentric tourists to plant flags and claim Bir Tawil as their own micro-kingdom, and the legal paradox of a land that officially does not exist.Question the lines on the map. Bir Tawil proves that the rigid architecture of international law can sometimes create a piece of the world that the world itself refuses to acknowledge.

How do you catch a meticulous, ghost-like serial killer who terrorized a state for a decade and successfully evaded the FBI for over forty years? You dont use traditional police work; you use the consumer DNA testing kits of his distant, unsuspecting relatives. The 2018 capture of the Golden State Killer completely revolutionized modern forensic science.After decades of dead ends, investigator Paul Holes took a radical, legally unprecedented approach. He uploaded the killers preserved DNA profile to GEDmatch, an open-source genealogy website used by hobbyists to find distant cousins. The algorithm identified several third cousins of the killer. By painstakingly constructing massive family trees dating back to the 1800s, and cross-referencing age, location, and military records, investigators mathematically funneled the genetic branches down to a single branch, leading them directly to the front door of Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer.This gripping true-crime narrative explores the intersection of biotechnology and justice. It documents the agonizing history of the original crimes, the brilliant genetic sleuthing of the investigative team, and the profound, controversial privacy implications of law enforcement weaponizing commercial DNA databases.You cannot hide from your own bloodline. The capture of the Golden State Killer proves that in the age of genetic data, the DNA of a distant cousin is a stronger witness than any camera.

How does a visionary inventor manage to excavate and build a fully functional, luxurious subway line directly beneath the busiest street in New York City without the corrupt politicians who ran the city ever finding out? The 1870 Beach Pneumatic Transit system is an incredible story of covert engineering and Victorian ambition.Frustrated by the deadly, gridlocked horse-drawn traffic of Broadway, publisher Alfred Ely Beach envisioned an underground train propelled entirely by wind. Knowing that the notoriously corrupt "Boss" Tweed of Tammany Hall would block the project to protect his surface transit monopolies, Beach secured a permit for a tiny "postal tube." Under the cover of night, he secretly excavated a massive tunnel instead. When he finally unveiled the project to a stunned public, it was a marvel: a grand, frescoed waiting room with a grand piano, leading to a plush, 22-passenger car blown down a 300-foot track by a massive 48-ton industrial fan.This captivating architectural history unearths the forgotten origins of the metropolis. It explores the fascinating physics of pneumatic engineering, the brutal political war that ultimately starved the project of funding, and the eerie rediscovery of the perfectly preserved station decades later when the modern subway was built.Descend into the forgotten tunnels. The Secret Subway is a testament to the ingenuity required to build the future when the politics of the present refuse to allow it.