The Nirex Collection: Diplomacy in revolution

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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...

Ce volume est une suite. Il tire sa genèse d'une précédente étude sur « Les villes de Lusitanie romaine » (1991), où, pour la première fois, les problèmes de territoires et de hiérarchisation urbaine liés à la romanisation ont été considérés à l'échelle de cette province antique de l'extrême occident. Il s'agit cette fois du premier regard d'ensemble porté sur les campagnes lusitaniennes, et singulièrement à l'action de l'homme sur le paysage rural. À l'heure où les paysages et campagnes de l'Antiquité font précisément l'objet de nombreuses publications d'ensemble,...

Este libro analiza de qué modo la incorporación de la escritura a la acción de gobierno dio lugar a formas organizativas que preludiaban la modernidad. El rey Pedro IV empleó primero la escritura para comunicarse con sus familiares; pero este carácter personal pronto se trocó en autoridad cuando trascendía el círculo privado y transmitía el mandato regio a la comunidad más amplia de los súbditos.