Latin America and the Caribbean Demographic Observatory 2017

The Demographic Observatory 2015 contains selected indicators from the 2015 revision of estimates and projections for the populations analysed. The figures contained in this publication are a revision of those presented in the Observatory 2014 and include updates of the estimations and projections of national populations from 1950 to 2100, taking into account new information sources available for Chile and Guatemala. Future issues will incorporate new estimates and projections, also prepared using the component method, but by simple ages and calendar years.

Este volumen está consagrado a la intervención norteamericana en Veracruz (1914). La documentación cubre todos los momentos de la pugna, desde la aprehensión de los marinos norteamericanos del Dolphin hasta la reanudación de la soberanía mexicana en el puerto.

Reflecting on the daily life of people in history, this series examines the culture of ancient civilizations and their time in history. They provide the reader with a glimpse of how each culture lived, worked, related to one another, and worshipped, as well as the eccentricities and peculiarities for which they are well known. Reflejando la vida cotidiana de la gente común, esta colección examina las culturas civilizaciones antiguas y su lugar en la historia. Ofrecen un compendio sobre las tareas diarias, la organización familiar y la práctica de la religión, así como las...

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...

Realmente la Orden del Temple, y los Caballeros Templarios desaparecieron, o siguen presentes en nuestros días ¿Quieres conocer la historia jamás contada de los Caballeros Templarios, y del Castillo Templario de Carbajales de Alba Esta es la historia de un Castillo, concretamente del Castillo Templario de Carbajales de Alba, sobre el cual poco se ha escrito y poco se sabe, con estas líneas pretendo compensar el olvido injusto que la historia de España ha tenido con el Castillo Templario de Carbajales de Alba, y con el pueblo de Carbajales de Alba. También es la historia jamás contada...