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Entre la Revolucion y las urnas es un estudio sobre la fundacion de la Union Civica Radical (UCR) en la Argentina y su desarrollo durante la decada de 1890. Como principal partido de oposicion parlamentaria y las armas. El libro presta especial atencion a estos medios ya que no solo definieron la naturaleza del partido sino que tambien tuvieron un profundo impacto en el sistema politico. En la investigacion se ha adoptado una metodologia eclectica que incluye estudios del discurso del partido -principalmente a traves de su diario El Argentino-, el analisis cuantitativo del mundo electoral de...

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...

La cartograf a es algo m s que la mera descripci n de lugares por medio de mapas, pues stos son como una mirada hacia el mundo de quien los traz . la cartograf a -anota el autor- es una ciencia capaz de aportar una visi n social, y el cart grafo no s lo debe registrar impresiones del mundo exterior y ser capaz de trasladarlas a la forma gr fica, sino que debe proporcionar una visi n m s amplia, como corresponde a una construcci n social. Los siete ensayos de este libro reflejan la muy personal concepci n que tiene Harley de la filosof a de la historia cartogr fica y fueron editados y...