Historia constitucional de Colombia, 1510-1978

La violencia es el principal problema de la sociedad colom biana, es causa y consecuencia de la dificultad de construir una comunidad de experiencias e ideales, este es el tema que toca tan apropiadamente este texto.

The old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.

Este libro muestra algunas cronicas de jovenes colombianos de 19 a 25 años de distintas condiciones sociales educativas y culturales que narran parte de sus vidas y posiciones frente a su ambiente social.

"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...