Al-Andalus

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

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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...

Esta Entrevista sobre el siglo XXI, a cargo de Antonio Polito, es una reflexión final sobre los años que el gran historiador británico ha vivido y estudiado tanto en Historia del siglo XX como en Años interesantes, y que, de algún modo, cierra el círculo de su análisis del siglo pasado. El profesor Hobsbawm no pretende en este libro predecir lo que ha de ocurrir durante el siglo XXI -que esa es tarea de astrólogos y no de historiadores- sino indicar unas líneas de fuerza que sean útiles para asentar nuestros proyectos y nuestras esperanzas en un sólido conocimiento de la realidad...