La sociabilidad perdida

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El investigador reunió a un grupo de especialistas para estudiar la naturaleza del presidencialismo en México y comparar las políticas de quienes gobernaron el país a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, con hincapié en su relación con el Poder Legislativo. El primer tomo está dedicado a quienes gobernaron México en el siglo XIX. Así, Guadalupe Victoria, Antonio López de Santa Ana, Benito Juárez, Porfirio Díaz, son protagonistas de capítulos donde, sin ignorar los rasgos biográficos, se explican los contextos sociopolíticos en que gobernaron.

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 presente volumen recoge diversas investigaciones recientes sobre aspectos relevantes y novedosos para la compresión y estudio del siglo XVIII en diferentes lugares del continente americano: Nueva Inglaterra, la cuenca del mar Caribe, Nueva España, el Nuevo Reino de Granada, Quito y Brasil. El grupo de historiadores que ha hecho posible este libro se ha encargado de llamar la atención sobre la significativa importancia del siglo XVIII como una época de consolidación, pero a su vez, de innumerables fracasos, que impulsaron la decadencia del dominio europeo en una vastísima porción del ...