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Everlasting Countdowns
Politics, not demographics, is at the core of this book on censuses. The contributors to this volume once and for all remove the fig-leaves from census-making by historicising and contextualising a type of statistical practice that has become essential for the functioning (and understanding) of the contemporary state. The book includes superb cross-disciplinary studies on ethnic and racial census categorisation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Peru and Venezuela (as well as two chapters that explicitly develop a comparative perspective). Against conventional wisdom, it provides conclusive evidence and new arguments for those who contend that in the practice of coun...
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, Muslims, Dutch and German Protestants), and with issues related to the ethnic diversity of the world’s first transatlantic empire and its various miscegenations. Contributors to this volume offer the reader diverse vantage points on the challenging problem of how identities in the Hispanic world may be analyzed and interpreted. A number of contributors relate earlier processes and formations to Neo-Baroque and postmodern conceptualisations of identity. Given the strong interest in identity and identity-formation within contemporary cultural studies, the book will be of interest to a broad group of readers from the fields of law, geography, history, anthropology and literature.
Una mirada jurídica a los cuentos de los hermanos Grimm
En este libro el lector encontrará nuevas formas de relacionar las leyes y la literatura y, con esto, nuevas maneras de estudiar la ley, con base en los valores y las ideas de justicia que son puestos a prueba en cada uno de los cuentos. La mirada aguda de cada autor ayuda a la reflexión actualizada sobre viejas estructuras de poder, derechos, obligaciones, prejuicios y narrativas que han per-meado el imaginario colectivo desde tiempos remotos. Así, la obra es un gran aporte a la enseñanza del derecho desde perspectivas críticas que, apoyadas en la literatura, propician un abordaje más eficaz de conceptos, narrativas y valores que el estudio técnico muchas veces deja pasar desapercibidos.
Efectos del reformismo borbónico en el Virreinato de la Nueva Granada
Esta obra es una recopilación de algunos trabajos expuestos a esa mesa temática, al igual que de trabajos resultados de la investigación de otros conocedores que aceptaron la invitación a formar parte de esta compilación. En total son ocho autores adscritos a diferentes universidades, del orden nacional —Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad del Rosario y Pontificia Universidad Javeriana— y extranjero —Universidad del País Vasco—, que se han dado a la tarea de analizar diferentes aspectos del reformismo borbónico y que, a su vez, comprometen a los diferentes actores de la sociedad. Las temáticas van desde la administración de justicia y la...
Tras el amparo del rey
“Un penetrante libro, en el cual Héctor Cuevas afronta el gran reto de captar los procesos identitarios y la cultura política de los indios del valle del río Cauca en la segunda mitad de la Colonia. Lo logra mediante una profunda investigación de archivo en la cual enfoca una región —actualmente suroccidente de Colombia— donde las lenguas e identificadores de las etnias se perdieron muy temprano en la mencionada época, al tiempo que prevalecía la categoría de “indios”. A partir de una consulta rigorosa de un amplio abanico de expedientes colombianos, ecuatorianos y españoles, construye un argumento elegante y convincente, con el cual reflexiona sobre los diversos significa...
Supersymmetry and String Theory
The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the field of theoretical physics. This book is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments. It contains a review of the Standard Model, covering non-perturbative topics, and a discussion of grand unified theories and magnetic monopoles. It introduces the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and includes dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric-magnetic duality. The book then covers general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies before discussing the spectra of known string theories and the features of their interactions. The book also includes brief introductions to technicolor, large extra dimensions, and the Randall-Sundrum theory of warped spaces. This will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics and cosmology. The book contains several problems, and password protected solutions will be available to lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9780521858410.
Landowners in Colonial Peru
In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers; by the late 1500s they had acquired land and established small farms and estates. This, the first study to examine the agrarian history of a region in South America from the mid-sixteenth through late-seventeenth century, demonstrates that colonials exploited the countryside as capitalists. They ran their rural enterprises as efficiently as possible, expanded their sources of credit and labor,...
Forbearance as Redistribution
The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal welfare provision and a more effective means to mobilize the poor than conventional state social policies.
Diplomatic List
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
