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Las categorías “mestizo”, “indígena” y “extranjero” no refieren a grupos estáticos, predefinidos, son más bien categorías móviles, cambiantes, resultado a menudo de negociaciones entre diversos grupos sociales, y de éstos con el Estado. Este libro busca explicar los procesos mediante los cuales se han construido dichas categorías y sus relaciones con el proceso de formación nacional. Los minuciosos estudios de caso aquí reunidos exploran desde la historia, la antropología o la sociología las distintas maneras en que se ha definido al otro frente al “nosotros”...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...