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Publicação Semestral Oficial do Conselho Internacional de Estudos Contemporâneos em Pós-Graduação
Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this perceived trajectory of declining social solidarity. These alternatives have tended to be obscured from view, in part as a result of the conceptual approaches adopted within the literature. Drawing from examples across the EU, this book presents an al...
La formación histórica de la seguridad social española ha sido fruto de una intensa y constante colaboración entre la acción del legislador y las aportaciones de la jurisprudencia, que no sólo han servido para facilitar la aplicación de las reglas legales a las circunstancias concretas de cada caso, sino también para perfilar la propia estructura del sistema, desde la precisión de su ámbito de aplicación hasta la progresiva configuración de las contingencias protegidas, con incursiones relevantes en la determinación de las condiciones de acceso a su acción protectora o en el acondicionamiento del cuadro de responsabilidades y sanciones. Muchas veces las opciones interpretat...
"Family background sketches of more than 1,000 colonial members of six noble orders. Extensive introductory essay provides useful historical overview for both specialists and general readers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas—"a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous polity, who were to provide the grantee (the encomendero) tribute in the form of commoditiesand service in return for protection and religious instruction." This study profiles the 506 known encomenderos in New Spain (present-day Mexico) during the years 1521-1555, using their life histories to chart the rise, florescence, and decline of the encomienda system. The first part draws general conclusions about the actual workings of the encomienda system. The second part provides concise biographies of the encomenderos themselves.