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Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Science, Religion and Nationalism
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of “religion” are seldom challenged. This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of “religion” played in the construction o...
¡Alerta!
A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments. The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next big quake hits. How does this kind of environmental monitoring technology get built in the first place? How does its life-saving promise align with reality? And who shapes modern risk mitigation? In ¡Alerta!, Elizabeth Reddy surveys this innovation to shed light on what it means to imagine a world where ...
La ciencia en la historia de México
Presenta el desarrollo científico de México para lo cual inicia con la exposición de los conocimientos elaborados por las culturas precolombinas, prosigue con la etapa colonial y examina después los resultados del positivismo y la situación en que se encuentra la investigación científica.
Permanencia y cambio
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La caída del Imperio Otomano y la creación de Medio Oriente
Este libro da seguimiento a uno de los cambios más extraordinarios conocidos por el mundo moderno, cuando después de la Gran Guerra, en 1918, el Imperio Otomano culminó una era de grandes realizaciones. Una profunda transformación tuvo lugar para dar origen a nuevos países, por lo general en los territorios que había mantenido bajo su dominio durante cuatro siglos. Ahora parece imposible imaginar que en la extensión de ese imperio, albergaran su historia varias naciones y culturas, con diferentes religiones y distintas lenguas. Con la intervención de las potencias como el Imperio Británico, Francia y Estados Unidos, principalmente, se crearon; Siria, Líbano, Egipto, Jordania, Irak,...
En busca del alma nacional
La historia narrada en este libro da cuenta de la persecución del anhelo de Alfonso Reyes donde “procuraría interpretar y extraer la moraleja de nuestra terrible fábula histórica: buscar el pulso de la patria[…]; descubrir la misión del hombre mexicano en la tierra, interrogando pertinazmente a todos los fantasmas y las piedras de nuestras tumbas y monumentos”.
