Tres libros en uno. Tres historias sobre Valparaíso que entrelazan la mirada de los extranjeros, el destino catastrófico y los mitos y anécdotas del “puerto principal”. De la utopía a la realidad, del pasado al presente, imaginación, fantasía y verdades reveladas que abrazan cinco siglos de historia para entender, conocer y comprender mejor el Valparaíso actual.
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART ONE: VALPARAÍSO, THE VIEW FROM ABROAD
- PROLOGUE FOR PART ONE
- THE NAME OF VALPARAÍSO
- THE FIRST CHURCH
- A FORTRESS
- VALPARAÍSO BECOMES A CITY
- INDEPENDENCE AND VALPARAÍSO
- THE INHABITANT
- DISENCHANTMENT WITH ITS POTENTIAL
- VALPARAÍSO IS NOT CHILE
- 19TH CENTURY VALPARAÍSO
- A BEACON OF CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE
- VALPARAÍSO IN VISUAL ART
- THE IMMIGRANTS
- CONCLUDING SUMMARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PART TWO: DISASTER PRONE VALPARAÍSO
- PROLOGUE FOR PART TWO
- VALPARAÍSO IN FLAMES
- THEN CAME THE STORM…
- AND DEVASTATING RAIN…
- EARTHQUAKE!!!
- LAST WORDS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PART THREE: BRIEF ANECDOTES ABOUT VALPARAÍSO
- PROLOGUE FOR PART THREE
- VALPARAÍSO, WHAT DO YOUR NAMES TELL ME?
- DEBUNKING MYTHS
- That old story about the Santiaguillo
- The Almendral without Almonds
- Valparaíso: Were the Old Days Always Better?
- WHEN FEMINISM BLOSSOMED IN VALPARAÍSO
- Flora Tristan’s Days at the Port
- THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE
- HISTORY IN THE MAKING
- The Santiago Wanderers of Valparaíso
- The story of the great Malaquito Muñoz of 1937
- 1967: Santiago Wanderers Diamond Wedding
- The day Valparaíso went to Santiago and returned victorious (1968)
- AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
- VALPARAÍSO: AMPHITHEATRE OR STAGE?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- EPILOGUE