Memoria

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

CONTENIDO: Elementos para estudiar las crisis de gobernabilidad en Colombia - Los problemas del ejercicio de gobierno en Colombia - La fotografía: atajos y notables. Los frágiles cimientos del poder presidencial en Colombia - La historia: la imperceptible erosión del poder presidencial en Colombia - La evidencia: el presidente sitiado. La dura paradoja del gobierno Uribe - La consecuencia: la fractura del régimen presidencial: los rasgos estructurales de la ingobernabilidad en Colombia.

Illustrated and annotated guide of the public sculptures and monuments located in 3 sectors of the city of Bogotá: Downtown (61); North (19); West (22). This is the first volume of an editorial project that will document the 500 works of public art patrimony that are part of the urban history of the capital city. The guide includes biographical notes of each featured artist, historic photographs on each sector and referential maps. Includes public art by noted 19th and 20th century artists and sculptors like Pietro Tenerani, Edgar Negret, Jim Amaral, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Otero,...

An historic account of the caricatures published in the last 128 years in the newspapers "El Tiempo" and "EL Espectador", the weekly magazine "Semana" (from the available digitalized material of older editions in custody of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango) and other compilations and caricature books of Colombia that dealt with economic matters. Includes many examples by noted caricaturists Chapete (Hernando Turriago), Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, Vladdo, Antonio Caballero and Pepón (José Ma. López Prieto), with a compilation of one or two examples by artists Ricardo Rendón, Adolfo...