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La épica del desencanto

Autor: Tomás Straka

Número de Páginas: 368

Invocado por todos sus gobiernos, hecho suyo por los más diversos y hasta contrapuestos sectores, Simón Bolívar atraviesa la historia venezolana. Es una sombra bajo la que todos quieren estar, una imagen que cada uno quiere a su lado. Tanto como sus ideas y sus batallas, la épica tejida a su alrededor es una inspiración que todos evocan y un premio que todos codician. Este libro es un recorrido por varias estaciones del culto bolivariano que analiza, a través de episodios concretos, ese fenómeno ya anunciado por otros autores de entidad, como Germán Carrera Damas y Luis Castro Leiva. Más que una aproximación al historicismo político, se trata aquí el problema de la relación entre historia y política, de la relación entre lecturas políticas de la historia y justificaciones historiográficas de lo político. La forma en la que tanto comunistas como militares de derecha, pero también poetas y curas han querido hacer suyo al Libertador es el tema que integra esta obra sobre la peculiar relación entre los venezolanos y la figura del hombre a quienes sentimos nuestro Padre Fundador.

Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830

Autor: Dr Gabriel Paquette

Número de Páginas: 426

Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together historians of Southern Europe (broadly defined) and its ultramarine empires. Each chapter has been explicitly commissioned to engage with a common set of historiographical issues in order to reappraise specific aspects of 'enlightened absolutism' and 'enlightened reform' as paradigms for the study of Southern Europe and its Atlantic empires. In so doing it engages creatively with pressing issues in the current historical literature and suggests new directions for future research. No single historian, working alone, could write a history that did justice to the complex issues involved in studying the connection between enlightenment ideas and policy-making in Spanish America, Brazil, France,...

The Enduring Legacy

Autor: Miguel Tinker Salas

Número de Páginas: 344

Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both foreign and Venezuelan. He reveals how class ambitions and corporate interests combined to reshape many Venezuelans’ ideas of citizenship. Middle-class Venezuelans embraced the oil industry from the start, anticipating that it would transform the country by introducing modern technology, sparking economic development, and breaking the landed elites’ stranglehold. Eventually Venezuelan employees of the industry found that their benefits, including relatively high salaries, fueled loyalty to the oil companies. That loyalty sometimes trumped allegiance to the nation-state. North American and British petroleum companies, seeking to maintain their stakes in Venezuela, promoted the idea that their interests were...

The Tabit Genesis

Autor: Tony Gonzales

Número de Páginas: 421

They left Sol in two great ships, carrying with them the last hope for humankind. Destined for different stars, their mission was to ensure the survival of our species. One ship was never heard from again. Decades later, the other arrived at a lifeless world, where the survivors learned that Earth was lost not to famine, but to an alien species determined to eradicate humans from existence. Man is not alone in the universe, and the last of us are hunted. Driven by strong characters facing tremendous odds, Tony Gonzales delivers SF in the grandest tradition: an epic adventure full of colossal ships, vast battles and unimaginable challenges.

Cien años de la Secretaría de Educación Pública. Diálogos desde el presente

Autor: Ernesto Treviño Ronzón , Dulce María Cabrera Hernández

Número de Páginas: 396

El propósito de esta obra es acercar al lector un diálogo entre contextos, tiempos y disciplinas acerca del origen, la trayectoria, los logros y las vicisitudes de la Secretaría de Educación Pública de México, en el contexto de los cien años de su fundación, cumplidos a finales del 2021. El momento fundacional de la SEP daba cuenta de una visión amplia del papel que podrían desempeñar la educación y la cultura en el México posrevolucionario. Los numerosos proyectos curriculares, pedagógicos o administrativos que han emergido se han superpuesto, desplazado y silenciado a lo largo de estos años, moldearon un sistema educativo heterogéneo que no ha dejado de crecer ni de cambiar, dejando tras de sí tanto logros como numerosas ausencias. A lo largo de un siglo, la idea de educación pública que se ha venido articulando con los debates sobre los derechos humanos, las perspectivas de género e interculturales, a la construcción del sensus communis, a la cultura para la paz y la prosperidad impulsada desde la SEP sigue siendo valiosa. En esta obra se aborda la dimensión política de la SEP —el poder y la función que ha desarrollado en el horizonte nacional—; las...

Venezuelan Anarchism

Autor: Rodolfo Montes De Oca

Número de Páginas: 291

Venezuelan Anarchism: The History of a Movement covers Venezuelan anarchism and its partisans from the first appearance of anarchist ideas in the period prior to independence through today. Venezuelan political histories have focused almost exclusively upon the various Venezuelan governments and political parties. Venezuelan Anarchism shifts the focus to those opposed to those governments and political parties, those who until now have been nearly forgotten. The book also explains in some detail their ideas, publications, and actions in opposition to Venezuela's ruling political elites and, more recently, Venezuela's authoritarian populists.

When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism

Autor: Ezequiel Korin , Paromita Pain

Número de Páginas: 155

This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo’s relationship with the media, extending their discussion beyond the boundaries of the specific cases or examples and into the entire articulation of a nearly-perfect communicational hegemony. It explores the wide-ranging transformations in the national mediascape, such as how censorship of journalistic endeavors has impacted news consumption/production in the country to the complexities of Venezuelan filmmaking during Chavismo, from the symbolic postmortem persistence of Chávez to the profound transformations undergone by telenovelas, from the politically induced migration of online audiences to the reinvention of media spaces for cultural journalism as forms of resistance. Allowing readers to engage not only with the particular case studies or exemplars presented, but with the underlying cultural, economic, political, societal, and technical aspects that come into play and which allow the extrapolation ...

Citizen of the Shadows

Autor: Paul Friedland , Robert N. Hornick

Número de Páginas: 455

“A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read.” —David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, the bestselling biography of Eleanor Roosevelt One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, only to be later accused of responsibility for one of the most spectacular acts of sabotage in US history: the Black Tom munitions depot explosion. After being repatriated to Germany, Witzke lived in Latin America and China as a German expat and later joined the Nazi party. He ran espionage squads in Great Britain during World War II and became a prominent businessman in Hamburg after the war. He was killed in Hamburg in 1962, possibly by an East German agent as payback for suspected double agent work on behalf of the British. With Citizen of the Shadows, the first full biography of Witzke, Paul Friedland and Robert Hornick trace Witzke’s morally complicated life and show readers how an infamous spy thrived in...

40 ans de cinéma à travers les prix du Jury œcuménique au Festival de Cannes

Autor: Interfilm Signis

Número de Páginas: 96

Le Festival de Cannes agite les media et attire les badauds au mois de mai sur la Croisette. Mais ce n'est pas seulement ces paillettes apparentes, c'est aussi des salles obscures du matin tot jusque tard dans la nuit ou les professionnels du cinema et les cinephiles se cotoient analysent, trient, evaluent la multitude de films proposes dans differentes selections. Parmi eux, les Jures oecumeniques doivent se prononcer sur celui qui, parmi les films de qualite, leur semble le mieux illustrer les valeurs de l'Evangile. Il est interessant de constater combien, en 40ans d'existence, les Jurys oecumeniques ont couronne des films qui accompagnent de pres l'actualite sociale. Beaucoup d'entre eux ont d'ailleurs aussi ete primes par la Selection Officielle. L'association Pro-Fil a produit et aussi recueilli de nombreuses analyses de ces laureats. Les voici regroupees dans cet opuscule dont la presentation pratique contentera les cinephiles desireux de connaitre un regard different sur le cinema

Elena Quinteros y la libertad en América Latina

Autor: Karla Hernández Scott

Número de Páginas: 151

La historia de América Latina es la del individuo frente al Estado. Basta consultar cualquier historia reciente de nuestro continente y encontraremos en ella la esencia de este conflicto eterno: individuo que enfrentan a los Estado en busca de libertad, y unos Estados que utilizan toda su fuerza represiva y censuradora para suprimir las voces incomodas e imponer hegemonías políticas. La historia de Elena Quinteros es una más en esta larga tradición represiva que los regímenes autoritarios latinoamericanos han impuesto en nuestros países casi de forma rutinaria. En este libro, sin embargo, se apuesta por ir más allá de la recopilación de una historia que resulta familiar. Karla Hernández Scott constituye un libro fascinante y apasionante, que utilizando las herramientas académicas de la historia indaga en una anécdota oscura de nuestro pasado reciente, concentrándose no solamente en el hecho en sí sino en sus graves consecuencias históricas y diplomáticas, que en su momento significaron uno de los conflictos diplomáticos más importantes en la historia de las relaciones entre Venezuela y Uruguay. Pero, además, el libro se convierte en un retrato indiscutiblemente ...

Historical Dictionary of Venezuela

Autor: Tomás Straka , Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal , Alejandro E. Cáceres

Número de Páginas: 451

Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It’s also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide. Despite having an oil boom between 2004 through 2008 with income of around two billion dollars, in 2016 it suffered an immense economic contraction and probably the largest supply shortcut crisis in its history. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Venezuela contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Venezuela.

La historia oculta de la Independencia de Venezuela

Autor: Francisco Alfaro Pareja

Número de Páginas: 323

"La Independencia, la Guerra Federal, la Revolución Cubana, las guerrillas comunistas venezolanas de la década de 1960 fueron inyectadas por el Estado a todos los niveles de la vida, para que los nuevos republicanos, más milicianos que ciudadanos, no tengan piedad con la oligarquía, los escuálidos pitiyanquis, la Derecha. Frente a esa guerra perpetua e idealizada, Alfaro Pareja contrapone la tesis de la paz imperfecta. Busquemos cómo convivir, dejemos de pensar en la destrucción del otro, aceptemos las diferencias. No es poca cosa lo que se planteó Alfaro Pareja. Pero para ello consideró que había que buscar algún referente histórico, una prueba de que, aun en los peores momentos, ha sido posible el entendimiento, siquiera en algún grado. El presente libro (...) busca delinear el proceso que nos llevó de la idealizada Guerra a Muerte a la paz imperfecta con España, remachada por el reconocimiento de la independencia por Isabel II en 1845, en un tratado tendencialmente ventajoso para Venezuela, aunque no sin claroscuros que ya entonces generaron molestias, pero que nos indican que, como dice el adagio popular, "es mejor un mal arreglo, que un buen pleito". Hijos de...

Le spectre de la révolution noire

Autor: Alejandro E. Gómez

Número de Páginas: 306

La révolution haïtienne a provoqué un traumatisme culturel jusqu’à constituer un véritable syndrome collectif de portée occidentale. Ce livre en montre l’extension et les conséquences en analysant dans le détail et dans diverses aires culturelles du monde atlantique (anglophone et hispanophone) chacune de ses manifestations, voire de ses enjeux sur les plans militaire et politique, à travers des outils analytiques inspirés notamment des sciences cognitives.

Los inicios del gobierno representativo en la República de Colombia, 1818-1821

Autor: Almarza Villalobos, Ángel Rafael

Número de Páginas: 282

El presente libro tiene como objetivo analizar los procesos políticos e institucionales que transformaron la vida política de los habitantes de los antiguos territorios de la Capitanía General de Venezuela y del Virreinato de la Nueva Granada durante el inicio y establecimiento del gobierno representativo en la República de Colombia entre 1818 y 1821. Se trata de años cruciales para el desmantelamiento del orden monárquico. Esta decisión implicó una ruptura radical con los principios de legitimidad política del Antiguo Régimen y dio lugar a la formación de un gobierno fundado sobre el principio de la soberanía popular. Para lograr este objetivo fue necesario tener en cuenta las características más significativas de los sistemas representativos que favorecieron la construcción de una nueva comunidad política, a saber: elecciones regulares de los funcionarios; independencia de los representantes con respecto a los representados; opinión libre de los gobernados a través de la prensa; y los procesos de debate en la toma de decisiones políticas a través de los órganos participativos.

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration

Autor: Andreas E. Feldmann , Xochitl Bada , Jorge Durand , Stephanie Schütze

Número de Páginas: 631

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements. The volume introduces the migratory trajectories of Latin American populations as a complex web of transnational movements linking origin, transit, and receiving countries. It showcases the historical mobility dynamics of different national groups including Arab, Asian, African, European, and indigenous migration and their divergent international trajectories within existing migration systems in the Western Hemisphere, including South America, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica. The contributors explore some of the main causes for migration, including wars, economic dislocation, social immobility, environmental degradation, repression, and violence. Multiple case studies address critical contemporary topics such as the Venezuelan exodus, Central American migrant caravans, environmental migration, indigenous and gender migration, migrant religiosity, transit and return migration, urban labor markets, internal...

Czech It Out

Autor: Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.

Número de Páginas: 1379

Czech it Out: Czech American Biography Sourcebook provides a wealth of information on a variety of sources relating to biographical information on notable Americans with Czech roots. Besides the national figures, also included are information sources on significant individuals at the state, regional, and local levels. Beyond that, we saw it fit to also incorporate ethnic information sources, which frequently contain a wealth of information on pioneer settlers and individuals active at the community level. Having in mind the interests of genealogists in individual families and their descendents, a listing has also been provided on family histories and genealogies. Even though Czechs have been living in the US practically since colonial times, no composite biographical dictionary exists about the accomplished Czech Americans. Biographical information about them is scattered in a plethora of sources, which are difficult to find and some are not readily accessible. The present author, who, literally, devoted several decades of his life to the study of Czech-American history, has canvassed hundreds of sources at national and local levels to identify, not only notable individuals but...

Ideologías

Autor: John Magdaleno , Club Of Rome. Capítulo Venezolano

Número de Páginas: 380

Temas de comunicacion #13

Autor: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Escuela De Comunicación Social

Número de Páginas: 228

Sociological Abstracts

Autor: Leo P. Chall

Número de Páginas: 766

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Prague Days and Nights

Autor: James Tressler

Número de Páginas: 50

PRAGUE DAYS AND NIGHTS, James Tressler's new novel on his time in Europe's lovely Central European capital in the first years of the new millennium, is a funny, poignant valentine to the city he loves. Presented as a series of sketches, yet maintaining the cohesion of a novel, Prague Days and Nights follows his days as an English teacher and nights in the city's notorious red-light district, as well as his attempts to find love and fulfillment in the Golden City. PRAGUE DAYS AND NIGHTS is a portable treasure, brilliantly reminiscent of Hemingway's A MOVEABLE FEAST in its ability to capture a sense of time and place. James Tressler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved to Europe in 2005 and spent several years in Prague working as teacher and freelance journalist. His work has appeared in The Czech Business Weekly, Provokator Magazine and The Prague Post. He is currently living in Istanbul.

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