Los inmigrantes de la India Oriental en el Valle del Río Cauca

El propósito fundamental de este libro es reconstruir la historia de San Basilio de Palenque como un homenaje a los antiguos cimarrones que tuvieron la capacidad de escapar de la vida en esclavitud. Sostuvieron su palenque por casi un siglo, a pesar de las ingentes vicisitudes y de las guerras que contra ellos se emprendieron. El libro abarca un capítulo introductorio sobre la historiografía de los palenques en Colombia y otros cuatro que plantean los diversos momentos del devenir histórico de los palenques de las sierras de María: el origen, el desarrollo, la conquista y el...

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Dos han sido los ámbitos en los que surgieron núcleos de civilización originaria en el Nuevo Mundo. Son ellos los de Mesoamérica y el área andina. El primero se consolidó a través de varios siglos en el centro y sur de lo que hoy es México y en regiones vecinas de la América Central. El segundo tuvo como escenario el sur de la actual Colombia hasta el norte de Chile y Argentina. Su área central de florecimiento se ubicó en tierras de Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. En esos dos extensos ámbitos florecieron, en varias etapas, distintos pueblos a los que se deben grandes creaciones, entre...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today. He examines the political crises, the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neoliberalism-from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil-and considers alternative options for development.