Los ultimos derechos de Colombia en el Canal de Panamá

"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.

Descripcion histórico-sociológica de la influencia y repercusiones en la conjunción de tres grupos sociales distintos como son los trabajadores que llegaron al Nuevo Reino de Granada, los villanos que buscaron mediante el pillaje y la criminalidad fortuna y un medio fácil de subsistencia, y al final las mujeres que se mezclaron como amantes de los dos grupos anteriores. También se describe el mestizaje de los pueblos indígenas con los emigrantes del viejo mundo

Provides an introduction to the theory and planning of regional development based on an analysis of the development process in Colombia and other countries.

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.