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Honorable Lives
The first work in English to discuss the social and political history of lawyers in a Latin American country, Honorable Lives presents a portrait of lawyers in late colonial and early modern Colombia. Uribe-Uran focuses on the social origins, education, and careers of those qualified to practice law before the highest colonial courts—Audiencias—and the republican courts after the 1820s. In the course of his study, Uribe-Uran answers many questions about this elite group of professionals. What were the social origins and families of lawyers? Their relation to the state? Their participation in political movements and parties, revolutions, civil wars, and other political processes? Their id...
Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies
Between 1810 and 1825, 7,000 English, Scottish and Irish mercenaries sailed to Gran Colombia to fight against Spanish colonial rule under the rebel forces of Simón Bolívar. Their motives were mixed. Some travelled for money, others travelled for honour. Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies explores the lives of these men – their encounters with other soldiers, indigenous people, local women and slaves – as recounted in documents that fall outside the usual remit of military, political and economic historians. Matthew Brown considers the social and cultural aspects of the presence of these ‘foreigners’, and shows how they were an essential part of the revolution which eventually gave South America its freedom. Using archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia, Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies clearly shows the active role that these mercenaries, informal outriders of the British Empire, played in the creation of Latin America as we know it today.
El hilo que teje la vida
El hilo que teje la vida es un libro en el que Juan Luis Mejía Arango reúne y complementa sus trabajos e investigaciones en torno a la cultura en Antioquia; ese gran tema que ha ocupado -y en el que ha ocupado- su curiosidad e intereses durante décadas. En ocho grandes capítulos, el autor abarca desde la Antioquia minera de los siglos XVII y XVIII, hasta la industrializada de la primera mitad del XX, pasando desde luego por la convulsionada y cambiante del XIX. En ese recorrido extenso, que es tanto en tiempo como en espacio, Juan Luis Mejía nos muestra de qué manera la economía, la política, las disputas y los cambios en el paisaje han labrado nuestra identidad. Distintas formas de arte y manifestaciones culturales antioqueñas aparecen en este libro, acompañadas por los protagonistas y, además, salpicadas de anécdotas. El hilo que teje la vida es sin duda una obra rica en fuentes e investigación, pero es también un nuevo episodio en la conversación interminable que este autor ha sostenido con sus lectores.
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