María de Montiel

Todo hecho humano es, en último término, personal: los llamados hechos colectivos son el resultado de una serie de hechos personales. La acción individual y la colectiva son inseparables y ambas se influyen mutuamente de un modo continuo. No se puede desconocer la influencia de poderosas personalidades sobre su época, ni tampoco que esas personalidades no pueden sustraerse al «espíritu del tiempo». Hay que situar a los hombres de carne y hueso en el marco de las sociedades en que viven. Estas páginas intentan adentrarse en la vida de cuatro hombres. Vidas que se encuentran y...

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"Vapor al norte, tren al sur," aborda un tema hasta ahora no considerado por la historiografia como lo es el estudio y explicacion de los viajes gubernamentales ocurridos en el Chile decimononico. Interpretados como una practica politica promovida desde el poder destinada a captar la adhesion y la simpatia popular, a traves de ellos se analizan los cambios producidos en el sistema politico chileno que, en la epoca de Balmaceda, hicieron posible novedosas formas de representacion del Presidente y la expansion de su base de apoyo, asi como tambien la dilatacion del espacio publico nacional y la ...

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...