Colombia. Bosquejo de su geografía tropical

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La presente obra trata sobre cómo los interéses públicos y privados fueron dos elementos de importancia en la conformación del territorio y la propiedad entre finales del siglo XVIII y mediados del siglo XIX, tomando como casos de estudio las salinas del Peñon Blanco. Durante ese periodo se repasa la interacción entre diferentes espacios geográficos relacionados con las fronteras político administrativas de lo que ahora conocemos como los estados de San Luis Potosí y Zacatecas.

Rosalía Sender Begué narra en primera persona sus vivencias como hija de exiliados españoles en Francia, las vicisitudes y la lucha por la supervivencia en medio de la epopeya que arrastró a miles de refugiados a un exilio que duraría décadas. Asimismo da cuenta de las raíces de un firme compromiso político, de su militancia comunista en los años de lucha clandestina, de su empeño insobornable por restituir las libertades, acabar con la dictadura y construir un estado democrático y plural. Son las memorias de una luchadora antifranquista, hija de los que perdieron la Guerra Civil....