Historia de la tristeza

CONTENIDO: Políticas de control en los Estados Unidos: 1850-1980 - Orígenes de la prohibición de las drogas en Estados Unidos - Surgimiento del problema de la droga en las relaciones colombo-estadounidenses en los años 1980 - Virgilio Barco y la cooperación plena con Estados Unidos, 1986-1990 - César Gaviria y el arte político de conciliar.

"The buildings recognized as assets of cultural interest that have been selected to be part of this book make sense as structuring elements within the historical construction of the environment and the city of Bogotá. These buildings are not only part of the different urban fragments but who, in many cases, were promoters of the development of their areas, outstanding landmarks of the urban form, cultural or social references for citizens or outstanding examples for the architectural history of the city. " (HKB Translation taken from the introduction by Sheril Natalia Salazar Bayona)

El Frente Nacional y su desarrollos - Las Reformas posteriores al Frente Nacional - La Asamblea Nacional Constituyente de 1991 - Desarrollo y primeros intentos de reforma a la Constitución de 1991 - Las Reformas políticas del gobierno Pastrana y su alianza por el cambio (1998-2002) - Las reformas políticas en el proyecto de referendo del presidente Alvaro Uribe Vélez y la enmienda de origen parlamentario presentada en el 2002.

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...