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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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En las últimas décadas, los saqueos se han convertido en episodios recurrentes de la sociedad argentina, que reaparecen cada fin de año en forma de amenaza, expectativa o posibilidad latente. Pocos hechos son más emblemáticos de las crisis terminales del país que los sucesos de 1989 y 2001, a tal punto que la imagen cristalizada de los saqueos, mezcla de desesperación y violencia, quedó asociada casi exclusivamente a estos dos momentos. Sin embargo, como sostienen los autores de este libro, esa práctica reconoce una historia mucho más larga que merece ser contada, porque, en su...

Este libro estudia el proceso de Contra Reforma Agraria que se llevó a cabo entre los años 1973 y 1976, el que devuelve los predios expropiados a sus antiguos propietarios y revoca los acuerdos de expropiación.