Semilla en tierra seca

The PRCT is the city of Bogota's plan for a permanent urban process of revitalization and conservation of their traditional historic downtown, through local development, integral housing, regeneration and improvement of natural conditions, sustainable spatial and mobility integration and the rescue and conservation of the cultural patrimony.

CONTENIDO: De la regeneración al republicanismo - Del republicanismo a la concentración nacional - ¿La violencia o las violencias? - Desorden, paz y guerra - Fraudes, bandoleros y matanzas - El principio del fin - Un demagogo místico? - Oposición sistemática? - Libertad de prensa y oposición - El oro y la escoria - Impunidad y violencia - El hombre tempestad - El monstruo.

"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...

"La concepción tradicional de seguridad nacional, surgida y consolidada durante la Guerra Fría, debe ser sustituida o al menos seriamente redefinida. Así lo exigen los cambios ocurridos en el panorama mundial desde la caída del muro de Berlín." -- Tomado de la contracarátula.