La ciudad de Babel

"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.

De part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, deux mondes longtemps unis sous l'autorité d'une même couronne, qu'elle soit espagnole ou portugaise, ont fini par se séparer au début du xixesiècle. Les Indes occidentales sont alors devenues l'Amérique latine mais les héritages préhispaniques et coloniaux n'ont pas cessé d'influencer les paysages urbains, les sociétés rurales et les mentalités collectives du monde latino-américain. Réunies pour rendre hommage au professeur Jean-Pierre Berthe, les quarante-six contributions présentées ici veulent donner de ce vaste ensemble, hétérogène...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...