La vida política. Argentina (1880-1930)

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Para Mota Padilla, la ciudad es "patria común" de todos los habitantes del reino. Hay que meditar esta afirmación: ante todo, en función del autor y de la fecha. Mota Padilla es uno de los primeros frutos de la "ilustración" en la Nueva Galicia y un panegirista del regionalismo incipiente frente al poder de México (ese "vientre" que acapara todas las energías). Cronológicamente, está situado hacia la mitad del siglo XVIII, es decir, después del trabajo realizado durante dos siglos por las diversas fuerzas unificadoras (y no solamente políticas), en beneficio de Guadalajara: como...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...