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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

La defensa marítima de los dominios españoles fue insuficiente durante el s. XVII, y con el cambio de siglo comenzó a preocupar seriamente a la Corona. Los nuevos tiempos exigían rehacer la marina y formar oficiales guerreros, que fueran también cosmógrafos y científicos. Pronto sobresalieron los vascos, que dirigieron expediciones cartográficas y de observación científica, defendieron el Mediterráneo contra los turcos y el Pacífico contra los corsarios, y mantuvieron a Inglaterra en jaque hasta la batalla de Trafalgar.

En este libro se ha evitado la tentación de convertir la historia contemporánea de América en un mosaico inconexo de pequeñas historias nacionales de cada país, y se han abordado, por el contrario, y de forma innovadora, los grandes problemas históricos continentales desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta la actualidad más estricta.

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