República, periodismo y literatura

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Si bien es indudable que Grecia ha constituido siempre un punto de referencia ineludible en todos los campos de nuestra cultura, también lo es que este predominio se ha visto acompañado en numerosas ocasiones por tópicos, purismos o ignorancias que han tergiversado de manera importante su verdadera imagen. Apoyada en una estructura sumamente pedagógica que articula cada etapa en cuatro apartados -panorama general, problemas fundamentales, fuentes y bibliografía básica-, esta INTRODUCCIÓN A LA GRECIA ANTIGUA constituye, pese a las evidentes e insoslayables dificultades que presenta la...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

La «cultura política» es comprendida aquí como un conjunto maleable de símbolos, valores y normas que constituyen el significado que une a las personas con las comunidades sociales, étnicas, religiosas, políticas y regionales. Esta perspectiva sirve a los editores para reunir, en este texto, diversos enfoques conceptuales en relación con la formación de los Estados-nación y la construcción del poder en América Latina.