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This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been ...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
EI presente libro versa sobre el desarrollo de siete empresas caleñas y resalta el papel de los empresarios y las jerarquías administrativas durante el período comprendido entre la segunda mitad del siglo XX y las primeras décadas del siglo XXI. En buena parte es la continuación del estudio realizado sobre la gestión de un grupo de empresarios pioneros en Cali durante el período 1915-1945, quienes aprovecharon las oportunidades surgidas por la conformación de las redes mercantiles, la gestación del mercado interno y las políticas proteccionistas del Estado para crear industrias manufactureras, dando muestras de una nueva mentalidad de ruptura con los atavismos de corte premoderno p...