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In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship began in the early twentieth century, when industrialization and urbanization became significant in the region, and ends at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when new tensions between liberal globalization and populist nationalism challenge development in the subcontinent, much of which is still poverty stricken. Latin America’s twentieth-century modernization and development are closely related to nineteenth-century ideals of p...
This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.
La Era del Imperio y las fronteras de la civilización en América del Sur analiza, en trece capítulos originales, las formas que esta voraz transformación adoptó a lo largo y ancho de diferentes situaciones de frontera. Destacadas antropólogas e historiadores del continente se aproximan a los avances que los Estados sudamericanos y los capitales internacionales lanzaron sobre las llamadas fronteras de civilización, analizando en sus contextos globales conquistas y resistencias que se extendieron —y se extienden hasta hoy— desde las costas del Caribe hasta los canales al sur de Tierra del Fuego. Para hacerlo, trabajan con una amplia gama de documentos, que incluyen relatos de viajes...
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