Colombia-Venezuela

"Analyzes the structural process of the economic opening begun in 1990. Unlike past economic liberalizations, this process is not contingent upon availability of hard currency, but obeys a long-term economic strategy designed to stimulate growth. The process is deployed across several fronts in addition to international trade, among them, renewed exchange rate and fiscal policy, financial and tax reform, foreign investment incentives and new labor laws. The book offers background for sector and industry leaders, and a complete bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Introducción -- Un mundo oculto -- El oficio del artista -- El mundo de la imagen -- Épilogo: El mundo del arte y el mundo de la vida

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

El autor muestra en detalle como la cultura politica de los anos cuarenta hunde sus raices en un horizonte imaginario tradicional, compartido de igual modo por liberales y conservadores. Unos y otros recurren a conceptos modernos que van, sin embargo, inseparablemente unidos a motivaciones y sentimientos ancestrales. Democracia y pueblo, por ejemplo son invocados para estimular pasiones que arraigan en un pasado inmemorial. El autor toma distancia tambien de la lectura liberalizante de la historiografia dominante, de inspiracion liberal, que opone un partido conservador tradicionalista,...