Cuba: La Habana y los Cubanos (HB)

El manicomio General La Castañeda, inaugurado por el presidente Porfirio Díaz en el marco de las celebraciones del Centenario de la Independencia, fue un imponente complejo arquitectónico de veinticinco edificios con capacidad para mil doscientos pacientes. Este evento fue asumido por la élite porfiriana como el ingreso de México a la modernidad psiquiátrica. Desde su fundación hasta su clausura en 1968, ingresaron más de cincuenta mil pacientes. En este libro se reconstruye la historia del Manicomio con base en los expedientes clínicos de quienes fueron internados durante la primera ...

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En lenguaje sencillo, los autores analizan algunos temas surgidos de la vida diaria que ilustran el rico y complejo mundo del lugar llamado superficie. Los ejemplos que presentan cumplen tambien el objetivo de mostrar la importancia tecnologica que tienen los procesos superficiales.

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...