Viaje a América (Tomo 1 de 2)

In the summer of 1893, a Spanish journalist arrives in Chicago to witness something unprecedented: the World's Columbian Exposition, a gleaming "White City" rising from the marshes of Lake Michigan. Over six months, Rafael Puig y Villas sends his observations back to the readers of La Vanguardia in Madrid, crafting a portrait of America at a pivotal crossroads. He walks the fair's grand avenues beside inventors and swindlers, financiers and suffragists, all gathered to celebrate (and debate) the promise of the modern age. But this is only the beginning. The first volume of his journey captures the exposition's extraordinary ambition, its architectural spectacles, and the collision of cultures it provoked. Through foreign eyes, we see the Gilded Age's audacity and anxieties, the indigenous peoples paraded as living exhibits, the technologies that would reshape the world. This is travel writing as cultural archaeology: a European liberal's amused, sometimes horrified, always astute reckoning with an America remaking itself in real time.