Sociedades campesinas, transición social y cambio cultural en Colombia

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Política y saber en los años cuarenta es un estudio de las relaciones entre docentes colombianos y extranjeros en la Universidad Nacional, que se apoya en un detallado estudio de caso: la trayectoria docente local del químico español Antonio García Banús, uno de los fundadores de los estudios modernos de la química en Colombia, llegado al país huyendo del fascismo europeo, en pleno ascenso a finales de los años treinta del siglo pasado. Partiendo de la perspectiva de una historia política del saber, que lo inscribe en el campo de los intereses sociales y de las formas...

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.

Justicia y política / Jaime Giraldo Angel / - Política y justicia en la coyuntura actual colombiana / Iván Orozco / - Administración de justicia, sistema político y democracia : algunas reflexiones sobre el caso colombiano / Rodrigo Uprimny.

El libro es un compendio estadistico que consta de nueve capitulos en donde se presentan los diferentes sectores y agregados macroeconomicos de la economia. El segundo tomo comprende el noveno capitulo que comprende las estadisticas historicas de Colombia en donde se relacionan las series economicas por sectores y el comportamiento de las diferentes actividades sectoriales de la economia, incluyendo agricultura, mineria, construccion, comercio, transporte, telecomunicaciones, energia, servicios de salud y educacion e industria.

"As the Samper government was rocked by allegations of drug-related corruption in the presidential campaign of 1994, Colombia's endemic crisis of governability, violence, and political participation took a dramatic turn for the worse. Moreover, Colombia/US bilateral relations degenerated into mutual accusations and recriminations. In this book, several of Colombia's leading political analysts assess this crisis and its implications for the maintainance of political stability and consolidation of democracy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.