Venturas y desventuras con el Patrimonio Cultural (1953-1973)

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Este manual aborda la primera parte de la Historia Contemporánea, que puede considerarse un largo siglo XIX. La historia contemporánea solemos iniciarla con los procesos revolucionarios que cambiaron el modelo político, económico y social que regía las sociedades en Occidente, que denominamos del Antiguo Régimen, para diferenciarlas del Nuevo que se inicia entonces, el del liberalismo en todos los órdenes, político, social, económico, cultural. Así pues, "contemporáneo" lo asociamos históricamente al mundo liberal-democrático que se comenzó a gestar en el ámbito atlántico. Por ...

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

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