La guerra como aventura

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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A la luz de investigaciones llevadas a cabo durante los dos ultimos decenios, Romano ha extendido el ambito de la discusion para incluir el espacio hispanoamericano. Ha podido verse que la America colonial aprovecho las dificultades de sus metropolis para ofrecer una coyuntura opuesta: si Europa en su conjunto -con las notables excepciones de Inglaterra y los Paises Bajos- pasa por una crisis secular, el continente americano proporciona ciertas senales de liberacion y de desarrollo economico.

The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements in Guatemala and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform.