Construyendo lo global

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

Este libro propone una aproximación distinta al problema de la guerra de Corea: una mirada desde ?adentro?, desde la dimensión cultural que es sin duda un determinante imprescindible de toda la realidad histórica. Sin desconocer los aportes del enfoque contextual histórico-político-castrense, la perspectiva de este trabajo se desplaza de la tradicional esfera socioeconómica a la de la experiencia y de las representaciones; de los sistemas estructurados a las situaciones vividas; de las normas colectivas a las estrategias singulares. El propósito del documento, además de una...