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Philip of Spain
This book, published four hundred years after Philip's death, is the first full-scale biography of the king. Placing him within the social, cultural, religious and regional context of his times, it presents a startling new picture of his character and reign. Drawing on Philip's unpublished correspondence and on many other archival sources, Henry Kamen reveals much about Philip the youth, the man, the husband, the father, the frequently troubled Christian and the king. Kamen finds that Philip was a cosmopolitan prince whose extensive experience of northern Europe broadened his cultural imagination and tastes, whose staunchly conservative ideas were far from being illiberal and fanatical, whose religious attitudes led him to accept a practical coexistence with Protestants and Jews, and whose support for Las Casas and other defenders of the Indians in America helped determine government policy. Shedding completely new light on most aspects of Philip's private life and, in consequence, on his public actions, this book is the definitive portrayal of Philip II.
Feeding the World
A realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed an expanding global population. This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity can produce enough food to support healthy and vigorous lives for all these people without irreparably damaging the integrity of the biosphere. What makes this book different from other books on the world food situation is its consideration of the complete food cycle, from agriculture to post-harvest losses and processing to eating and discarding. Taking a scientific approach,...
The New Mole
The New Mole is a major new analysis of recent developments in Latin American politics by one of the continent’s leading political thinkers. Emir Sader explains the resurgence of radicalism in terms of the region’s history and explores its theoretical underpinning. The book is unusual in combining succinct judgments with broad chronological and geographical sweep—covering a period running from the early twentieth century to the present and detailing the political interplay between nations. Sader points to areas where Latin America offers new insights to the world—on indigenous questions, for example—and areas where political thought lags behind practice, as in Venezuela. He also examines the process of regional integration under way in Latin America, which stands out because it is occurring independently of Washington. Looking at the role of political and ideological struggles in defining the continent’s trajectory, Sader concludes with an optimistic affirmation of agency that is all the more convincing for its sobriety.
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In the South Seas
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Latinyorks: identidad cultural y asimilación de los (in)migrantes latinoamericanos en Nueva York
En la actualidad, hablar de contextos (in)migratorios es hablar de una serie de complejidades que rebasan las disciplinas y los marcos explicativos y comprensivos. Cuando pensamos en las movilidades humanas y las migraciones internacionales nos referimos a sociedades que se mueven y se desarrollan sobre uno, dos o más territorios, pero también a la creación de un tercer espacio que se circunscribe como un mundo de vida paralelo y simultáneo donde cada acción, pensamiento, recuerdo y palabra de las personas y las comunidades (in)migrantes resuena más allá de las fronteras y las temporalidades. Éste es un trabajo de investigación teórica, empírica y comparada que narra la experiencia de inserción de las y los (in)migrantes jóvenes de Latinoamérica, de primera, segunda e intermedia generación que estudian, trabajan y crean su vida presente y futura en Nueva York.
Political Ecology
This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts. It reflects on the evolution of subject and thought, a shift in environmental thinking triggered by the development of eco-territorial conflicts and the social responses given to the environmental question. Bringing together 40 years of the authors writing and research, the book explores the transition from ecological economics and historical materialism to ecological Marxism. It unpacks the forging of political ecology from value theory in political economy, to ecological distribution and ecologies of difference; a transition to an environmental rationality grounded in the ontology of diversity, a politics of difference and an ethics of otherness. This evolution in thinking gives consistency to a theoretical discourse able to respond to the territorial conflicts generated by the radicalization of the environmental question as a key social issue of our times. The book is a call to respond to the urgent challenge of reversing the tendency towards the entropic death of the planet and to building a sustainable world order.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier es, sin duda, uno de los más grandes e influyentes escritores hispanoamericanos del siglo XX, y uno de los fundadores de la literatura cubana contemporánea. Cuando en 1977 le fue concedido el Premio Cervantes [...] Su personalidad es múltiple, como múltiple es su obra, y por eso ha llegado a interesar a un público muy heterogéneo. Domina todos los estratos de la lengua, desde el más culto hasta el habla popular de su tierra; trabaja también con lenguas clásicas y modernas, por lo que sus escritos generan una riqueza léxica fuera de lo común. Pero lo más interesante es la cantidad de registros y tonos que poseen sus novelas, pues allí se dan cita los mejores escr...
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