Azúcar y esclavitud en el final del trabajo forzado

En las décadas finales del siglo XVIII comenzó a difundirse en la América española un pensamiento que reaccionaba en contra de los monopolios, la exclusividad de la metrópoli y de los comerciantes favorecidos, las reglamentaciones excesivas y los privilegios que encarecían los precios y dificultaban los intercambios. El antiguo mercantilismo restringía la expansión y la prosperidad de las colonias, dificultando la introducción en el mercado de nuevos actores económicos de ambos lados del Atlántico. Se abrieron paso así las ideas que conformaban un “mercantilismo liberal” y un...

El término victoriano sirve para identificar la etapa del mayor predominio mundial del Reino Unido. pero también para calificar a una sociedad de puritanismo extremado, de cultura insegura y normas rígidas cuyo conservadurismo puede interpretarse como una reacción de temor ante un proceso de cambio tan acelerado y profundo que fue el del reinado de Victoria. Sin embargo, la Inglaterra Victoriana destaca en el conjunto de Europa como un modelo de estabilidad porque mientras, por ejemplo, Francia conocía una Monarquía, dos Repúblicas y un Imperio, la única incógnita de la política...

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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...