Culturas políticas en la región andina

Presents a history of Classical antiquity and features illustrations, maps, diagrams, and statistical tables.

La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana se complace en ofrecer al mundo universitario la presente obra, que recoge la mayoría de los escritos del P. Alfonso Borrero Cabal, S.J., sobre la historia, la naturaleza, las características, funciones, realidades y proyecciones futuras de la universidad. Se trata de una colección de trabajos gestada a lo largo de muchos años, fruto de su intensa experiencia universitaria, de una paciente investigación personal, y de una continua interacción con sus colaboradores, colegas y amigos universitarios. La obra, tal como se presenta en la presente edición, ...

Examines U.S. history from the Mexican American perspective, including long before 1776, 1830-1910 conquest and colonization, Mexican Revolution, the poor of Mexico were wanted up North, in occupied America, 1929-1960, World War II, strikes, the Zoot Suit riots, stereotypes, culture (viva nuestra cultura), the movement (el movimiento), Raza Unida party, rolling back gains of the 60s, justice for farmworkers, immigration in the 80s, boom in the arts.

With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...