Nuevos documentos de 1948

Mediante una serie de historias de vida que se introducen en los rincones más íntimos y secretos de la vida cotidiana femenina, el lector se adentrará en un universo de relaciones entre mujeres y curanderas, sujetos que tuvieron que construirse como personas a partir de la negociación constante entre los estereotipos femeninos de la cultura católica barroca y las experiencias personales que no siempre coincidieron con aquellas creencias preconcebidas. Amor y desamor, enfermedad y curación, maternidad y deseo son los hilos conductores que cruzan los relatos de este libro. En sus...

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The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was created during 1940s. It's a key indicator of economic policy, and it's considered as rule to measure the significance of a country's economy, and it's a common base for other important indicators, such as fiscal deficit and the human development index (HDI). Diane Coyle reminds us that this instrument is not supposed to turn into a fetish; on the contrary, since it possesses a history that explains its consolidation, along with a structure and strategies that show the conception of economy from those who postulate it. Nonetheless, the GDP is currently one ...

En este libro se ha evitado la tentación de convertir la historia contemporánea de América en un mosaico inconexo de pequeñas historias nacionales de cada país, y se han abordado, por el contrario, y de forma innovadora, los grandes problemas históricos continentales desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta la actualidad más estricta.