Historia económica y social de Colombia

Son tan diversos los momentos y los lugares en los que se ha formado el Estado, y tan distintos y complejos los procesos sociales en los que las relaciones de poder se han decantado en un orden estatal, que no se puede proponer una teoría general del Estado. No obstante, si se considera la producción intelectual pertinente se puede constatar que hay, cuando menos, cuatro elementos que pese a que las disciplinas de Occidente los han considerado de manera separada, suelen estar presentes en el proceso de formación del denominado Estado moderno. Estos elementos esenciales, que sólo pueden...

"Exceptional studies on implications of specific reforms which followed adoption of 1991 constitution. Issues include waging of war and right to peace, Andean commercial integration, private property, and political reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"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...

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.