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El Principe, de Nicholas Maquiavelo, es una obra clasica en materia poli-tica y de gran trascendencia dentro de la cultura occidental. Maquiavelo es, ademas de un gran teorico del pensamiento politico, y uno de los grandes prosistas en lengua italiana del s. XVI. Atacado por muchos y defendido tambien con firmeza, Maquiavelo nos demuestra su talento de escritor y la forma de conseguir y mantener el poder.

Las categorías “mestizo”, “indígena” y “extranjero” no refieren a grupos estáticos, predefinidos, son más bien categorías móviles, cambiantes, resultado a menudo de negociaciones entre diversos grupos sociales, y de éstos con el Estado. Este libro busca explicar los procesos mediante los cuales se han construido dichas categorías y sus relaciones con el proceso de formación nacional. Los minuciosos estudios de caso aquí reunidos exploran desde la historia, la antropología o la sociología las distintas maneras en que se ha definido al otro frente al “nosotros”...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...