Chile en el siglo XXI

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Los doce relatos que conforman este libro nos invitan a formar parte de este lugar de encuentro que es, también, un verdadero mundo dentro del mundo.

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

Dimensiones del conflicto: resistencia, violencia y policía en el mundo urbano ofrece una galería de expresiones del conflicto y de formas de recomposición del mismo en contextos diversos, entre el Antiguo Régimen y las sociedades liberales. La perspectiva transfronteriza y comparativa que se adopta en esta obra ofrece una panorámica contrastada sobre las concreciones del conflicto y el orden, sobre los factores, discursos, imaginarios y actores que participaron en los procesos de cambio histórico a través de la resistencia, la violencia y la policía en los espacios urbanos de este...