Idola fori y escritos políticos

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A partir de identificar los distintos actores, visibles y ocultos, que intervienen en la violenta realidad colombiana, este libro analiza las más representativas obras literarias y cinematográficas del país, aquellas que le han dado una dimensión estética a las diversas expresiones del exilio, el desplazamiento y el desarraigo. Con un amplio conocimiento en materia literaria, Óscar López enfrenta momentos tan complejos de la historia de la literatura nacional como la poética que nace del desplazamiento en los años cincuenta y la narrativa que registra el fenómeno sicarial y...

Monograph on the history of data collecting in Colombia from the pre-colombian era to 1978 - discusses statistical computing techniques, types of census and surveys carried out, data collecting through the ages, and describes functions of the national level statistical service, etc. Bibliography pp. 589 to 594.

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...