Pueblo Mapuche

La estancia de Alexander von Humboldt en territorios hispanoamericanos, entre 1799 y 1805, tuvo diversas repercusiones de caracter cientifico. A partir de que supo allegarse a todo tipo de informacion, tanto del poder como de los hombres de cultura de entonces, logro elaborar interpretaciones y exposiciones panoramicas, rigurosas y sistematicas de fenomenos y acontecimientos de estos territorios. Con ello Humboldt continuo su tarea de reintegrar America al mundo occidental.

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...

El pasado cambiante. Historiografía y capitalismo. Siglos XIX-XX suposa tant una anàlisi dels diversos enfocaments proposats sobre l'origen i desenvolupament del capitalisme com una reflexió sobre la dinàmica interna, en el seu context social, del treball dels historiadors. Als dos primers capítols, s'estableix un diàleg amb sociòlegs de la ciència, historiadors i especialistes d'altres dominis que tracten d'introduir-se en la lògica de les ciències i de la història en les seues formes d'enfrontar-se amb la realitat externa, sobretot sota les coordenades que marquen la societat i...

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