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Bosque Calderón Tejada
La historia del barrio Bosque Calderón Tejada en Bogotá ha estado marcada por las tensiones propias de un barrio visto como ilegal. Pese a que más de cinco generaciones de familias llevan habitando este lugar desde inicios del siglo XX, a lo largo de su trayectoria, el acto de resistencia por parte de sus habitantes ante el posible desalojo y la presión inmobiliaria ha sido una constante. Pero no es solo eso lo que caracteriza al barrio. Su condición de espacio aferrado a las faldas de los cerros Orientales de Chapinero, su ubicación a orillas de la quebrada Las Delicias y el desarrollo de una tradición de organización comunitaria que ha luchado por la búsqueda y garantía de condic...
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.
Alberto Manrique Martín
Exaltar la labor de arquitectos y firmas de arquitectura que han contribuido al desarrollo de Bogotá, es la finalidad de la serie Homenajes / Arquitectos en Bogotá, una colección editorial de trabajos monográficos acerca de las más significativas figuras de la cultura arquitectónica de la capital. Este primer volumen, dedicado a Alberto Manrique Martín da muestra clara de las intenciones de la colección: ediciones muy bien cuidadas, rigurosas en la investigación y atractivas en la presentación, con contenidos ricos en ilustraciones –planos y fotografías– y una abundancia de datos que ponen en contexto la obra de los arquitectos seleccionados con su momento histórico. Especial...
A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821
This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world.
Constructing the Criollo Archive
Focusing on a period neglected by scholars, Higgins reconstructs how during the colonial period criollos - individuals identified as being of Spanish descent born in America - elaborated a body of knowledge, an "archive," in order to establish their intellectual autonomy within the Spanish colonial administrative structures." "This book opens up an important area of research that will be of interest to scholars and students of Spanish American colonial literature and history."--BOOK JACKET.
Democracy In Islam
Challenging the view of Islamic extremists and critics of Islam, this book explores the very topical issue of Islam’s compatibility with democracy. It examines: principles of Islam's political theory and the notion of democracy therein the notion of democracy in medieval and modern Muslim thought Islam and human rights the contribution of Islamic legal ideas to European legal philosophy and law. The book addresses the pressing need for a systematic show of an Islamic politics of human rights and democracy grounded in the Qur’an. The West wonders about Islam and human rights, and its own ability to incorporate Muslim minority communities. Many Muslims also seek to find within Islam support source for democratic governance and human rights.
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion marks a critical point in Lascasian scholarship. The result of the collaborative work of seventeen prominent scholars, contributions span the fields of history, Latin American studies, literary criticism, philosophy and theology. The volume offers to specialists and non-specialists alike access to a rich and thoughtful overview of nascent colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies in a single text. Contributors: Rolena Adorno; Matthew Restall; David Thomas Orique, O.P.; Rady Roldán-Figueroa; Carlos A. Jáuregui; David Solodkow; Alicia Mayer; Claus Dierksmeier; Daniel R. Brunstetter; Víctor Zorrilla; Luis Fernando Restrepo; David Lantigua; Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez; Eyda M. Merediz; Laura Dierksmeier; Guillaume Candela, and Armando Lampe.
Spain, a Global History
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets wa...
A Short History of Humanity
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... 'Stops you dead in your tracks ... An absolute revelation' Sue Black, bestselling author of All That Remains In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future. Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors' DNA like journals chronicling personal stories of migration, Krause charts two millennia of adaption, movement and survival, culminating in the triumph of Homo Sapiens as we swept through Eur...
