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Caudillos in Spanish America, 1800-1850
The caudlillo of Spanish America was both regional chieftain and, in the turbulent years of the early nineteenth century, national leader. His power base rested on ownership of land and control of armed bands. He was the rival of constitutional rulers and the precursor of modern dictators. His is a dominant figure in Latin American history. In this book John Lynch explores the changing character of the caudillo--bandit chief, guerrilla leader, republican hero--and examines his multi-faceted role as regional strongman war leader, landowner, distributor of patronage, and the 'necessary gendarme' who maintained social order. Professor Lynch traces the origins and development of the caudillo tradition, and sets it in its contemporary context. His scholarly analysis of this central theme in the history of Spanish America is underpinned by detailed case-studies of four major caudillos: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Argentina), Jose Antonio Paez (Venezuela), Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Mexico), and Rafael Carrera (Guatemala). This is an important contribution to our understanding of political and social structures during the formative period of the nation-state in Spanish America.
Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
This is the first English-language history of Colombia as a coffee-producer.
La visita del oidor, 1657
Se presenta aquí la trascripción técnica de la visita de Don Diego de Baños y Sotomayor a los reales de minas de Pamplona en el año 1657, además de su análisis y una narración modernizada con los datos sistematizados en tablas. Las visitas, como se sabe, eran realizadas por los oidores de la Real Audiencia o por comisionados suyos. En esta, De Baños se ocupó de indagar en Vetas, en las Montuosas Alta y Baja, y comisionó a Pedro Robayo para que indagara en el Río de Oro, Bucaramanga y Bucarica. La visita era una labor de control que idealmente facilitaba el buen gobierno del rey, pero muchas veces, los oidores aprovecharon la tarea para favorecer sus intereses, pero también representan una de las principales fuentes para los historiadores americanistas de la etapa colonial.
Las clientelas del general Wilches
El lector no tiene entre las manos la biografía de Solón Wilches, que en estas páginas se va desgranando como un lazarillo que nos conduce a lo largo de la narración y nos sirve de guía en su transcurso, dándonos además continuadas referencias que nos ubican en el tiempo y el espacio. Este libro nos muestra que, más que decisiones espontáneas que podrían parecernos son las que estructuran estas historias familiares enlazadas, son en cambio la naturaleza y la entidad de las negociaciones urdidas entre ellas y establecidas con terceros, las que arman toda la trama de lo que vamos poco a poco, página a página, descubriendo, porque el autor así nos lo va desvelando.
West African Folk Tales
Collection of traditional folk tales introduces a host of interesting people and unusual animals — among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Tortoise and His Broken Shell," and "The Boy in the Drum."
Language and Logic in Ancient China
Guided by 20th century theories of language, Hansen's novel approach to interpretive theory launched the modern analytical study of Ancient Chinese philosophy. This 1983 publication challenged authority-based traditional "religious" accounts stemming from 18th and 19th century missionary dictionaries and reliance on interpretive authority. "Hansen shows that one tiny grammatical question... has profound implications for the understanding of Chinese philosophy. ...This is surely a decisive breakthrough ... a great success. His observations about Chinese thought in general are always stimulating and illuminating. A book which excites one to rethink things from the foundations." A. C. Graham "A...
Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature
Graham addresses several fundamental problems in classical Chinese philosophy, and in the nature and structure of the classical Chinese language. These inquiries and reflections are both broad based and detailed. Two sources of continuity bring these seemingly disparate parts into a coherent and intelligible whole. First, Graham addresses that set of fundamental philosophical questions that have been the focus of dispute in the tradition, and that have defined its character: What is the nature of human nature? What can we through linguistic and philosophical scrutiny discover about the date and composition of some of the major texts? What sense can we make of the Kung-sun Lung sophistries? A second source of coherence is Graham's identification and articulation of those basic and often unconscious presuppositions that ground our own tradition. By so doing, he enables readers to break free from the limits of their own conceptual universe and to explore in the Chinese experience a profoundly different world view.
