El hambre en el mundo

With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...

Tomo IV de Chile en la Colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea. os años tratados en este volumen coinciden casi exactamente con la época en que la tradición institucional chilena logró consolidarse en un verdadero proceso democrático. Además, el país empezó a ser reconocido como tal en el continente. Su cultura -una mujer Premio Nobel de Literatura, reconocimiento que abría paso al que a comienzos de los setenta recibiría Neruda- adquiría un toque de universalidad. Como en otros países del continente, se ensayó el camino de la industrialización, logrando éxitos ...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

El país de los niños perdidos. El terror fascista. El terror revolucionario. La guerra. La victoria.