Contrabando, poder y color en los albores de la República: Nueva Granada, 1822-1824

A lo largo de 50 años labarriada se ha constituidoen una modalidad de accesoal suelo y a la viviendapara quienes por alguna uotra razón se han encontradoexcluidos de losmercados convencionales.Vistas en la historiareciente de la ciudad deLima, las barriadas no sonsolamente esteras ni invasiones.Se han convertidoen un elemento constitutivode la estructura mismade la ciudad, tanto ensus aspectos físicos comoculturales.El libro que presentamoscumple dos objetivosigualmente importantes.Por un lado describe laevolución de las barriadasde la ciudad de Lima hastanuestros días, y por otroanaliza ...

La división estructural en libros base y monografías referidas a hechos cruciales para la interpretación de la historia de los pueblos ( conflictos, desarrollo social, cultural y tecnológico, vida cotidiana, pensamiento ) permite tanto la comprensión global de la historia de la humanidad, como la profundización sobre determinados acontecimientos o aspectos generalmente ignorados en los manuales al uso. Los estudiantes encuentran así una forma atractiva y unas amplias posibilidades de su aplicación al estudio de las múltiples facetas del devenir histórico y de las diferencias...

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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...