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Un libro con la información más sucinta y jugosa de la historia de la capital colombiana. Narra la transformación social y económica que experimentó la ciudad desde su fundación, con tres exploradores diferentes de por medio, en el siglo XVI hasta su conversión en el siglo XXI en una de las cinco metrópolis más grandes y ricas de América Latina. En este lapso entre uno y otro siglo tuvo un crecimiento lento, pero, gracias a los ferrocarriles llegó a ser, a partir de la segunda década del siglo pasado, la ciudad más importante del país.

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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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