Jurisprudencia de la corte suprema de justicia

"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...

Accompanying CD-ROM, in pocket at end of tomo 2 contains ... "Documentos importantes para la Historia de la revolución de la República de Colombia."--CD-ROM label.

Los ensayos incluidos en esta compilación (1939-1954) reflejan la faceta económica de Nieto Arteta (1913-1956), que en conjunto con su sensibilidad para el trato de los problemas históricos planteaban una visión para la historia de Colombia, en donde su preocupación giraba principalmente entorno, como se muestra en sus ensayos, del deterioro del comercio exterior de los países en vías de desarrollo, a consecuencia de la falta de reconversión tecnológica y el estado de la desprotección arancelaria, y de los temas de cooperación interamericana.

"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.