Latin America

Latin America
Author: Robert Delorme
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC--Clio Press ; Oxford, Eng. : Clio Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1981
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Breve historia de la Revolución Industrial

Breve historia de la Revolución Industrial
Author: Luis E. Íñigo Fernández
Publisher: Nowtilus
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 8499674143

La Revolución Industrial es el proceso más determinante de la historia reciente: una narración vibrante plagada de victorias para la humanidad, pero también de víctimas. Nadie duda que las guerras o los enfrentamientos cambian el curso de la historia, pero no es menos importante, para nuestra historia reciente, el impacto que tuvo la Revolución Industrial tanto en la economía como en la política o la estrategia militar de las naciones. Breve Historia de la Revolución Industrial nos presentará este complejo e imparable proceso humano en el que se combinan varias revoluciones como la revolución agrícola o la revolución demográfica y que contó con la colaboración de las teorías científicas en las que se sustentaban los nuevos inventos, las universidades que empezaron a producir trabajadores cada vez más cualificados y, sobre todo, de los gobiernos que, hasta las primeras revoluciones sociales, eliminaron todas las barreras con las que el progreso se iba encontrando, aunque estas barreras estuvieran hechas de seres humanos. Es fundamental, a la hora de abordar este heterogéneo y dilatado proceso, la intención didáctica que Luis E. Íñigo mantiene constantemente a lo largo de la obra, así podemos introducirnos sin problema en los distintos debates que existen sobre la revolución industrial. ¿Puede hablarse de una Revolución Industrial que se inicia en Inglaterra y a la que se van sumando, con más o menos éxito, los demás países o deberíamos hablar de un desarrollo económico a escala mundial? ¿Comienza la Revolución Industrial en el S. XVIII o debemos remontarnos al S.

Disrupción tecnológica, transformación y sociedad

Disrupción tecnológica, transformación y sociedad
Author: Juan Carlos Henao
Publisher: Universidad Externado
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9587906047

La tercera edición de la colección "Así habla el Externado" examina el impacto que las tecnologías disruptivas y la transformación digital están teniendo sobre el conjunto de la sociedad, bajo una lente humanista e interdisciplinar, propia de nuestra institución. La Cuarta Revolución Industrial (4RI), que ha permeado todos los campos de la actividad humana y la sociedad, ofrece la inmensa oportunidad de reducir las brechas de conocimiento e ingreso económico y generar progreso social y democrático, pero puede también tener el efecto contrario. El lector y la lectora encontrarán en estos cuatro tomos reflexiones valiosas, en sus 74escritos, para comprender en todo su alcance estas innovaciones y poder contribuir así a la construcción de realidades cada vez más incluyentes y participativas. Este tomo III, titulado "Derecho, innovación y tecnología: fundamentos para una Lex Informático", tiene por objeto responder la siguiente pregunta: ¿de qué manera las nuevas tecnologías y la economía colaborativa están transformando el derecho, sus principios e instituciones? Para ello, el presente volumen estudia en detalle las promesas, retos y problemas jurídicos suscitados por la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial, el Big Data, el Blockchain y el loT en distintos ámbitos del derecho público y privado. Los diferentes capítulos presentan debates en torno a la forma en que dichas tecnologías vienen afectando profundamente al mundo del derecho, con el fin de construir un marco conceptual que no solo sirva de base para sostener una discusión académica sólidamente fundamentada sobre estos temas, sino también para despejar las dudas jurídicas que pueden existir con el fin de facilitar y acelerar el desarrollo e implementación práctica de estas tecnologías, así como de contribuir a orientar la agenda académica sobre estos asuntos en América Latina.

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s
Author: Arturo Almandoz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317606515

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship began in the early twentieth century, when industrialization and urbanization became significant in the region, and ends at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when new tensions between liberal globalization and populist nationalism challenge development in the subcontinent, much of which is still poverty stricken. Latin America’s twentieth-century modernization and development are closely related to nineteenth-century ideals of progress and civilization, and for this reason Almandoz opens with a brief review of that legacy for the different countries that are the focus of his book – Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela – but with references to others. He then explores the regional distortions, which resulted from the interaction between industrialization and urbanization, and how the imbalance between urbanization and the productive system helps to explain why ‘take-off’ was not followed by the ‘drive to maturity’ in Latin American countries. He suggests that the close yet troublesome relationship with the United States, the recurrence of dictatorships and autocratic regimes, and Marxist influences in many domains, are all factors that explain Latin America’s stagnation and underdevelopment up to the so-called ‘lost decade’ of 1980s. He shows how Latin America’s fate changed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, when neoliberal programmes, political compromise and constitutional reform dismantled the traditional model of the corporate state and centralized planning. He reveals how economic growth and social improvements have been attained by politically left-wing yet economically open-market countries while others have resumed populism and state intervention. All these trends make up the complex scenario for the new century – especially when considered against the background of vibrant metropolises that are the main actors in the book.

Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1969
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

In Defiance of Boundaries

In Defiance of Boundaries
Author: Geoffroy de Laforcade
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813063345

Choice Outstanding Academic Title "State-of-the-art yet accessible analyses that significantly expand understanding of the role of anarchism in Latin America. . . . Will long be a standard text that provides [an] important reference for scholars and students of labor and social movement history."--Choice "A vivid picture of the transnational nature of the anarcho-syndicalist/anarchist movement."--Anarcho-Syndicalist Review "A pioneering collection of essays on the world of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian thinkers in Latin America."--Barry Carr, coeditor of The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire "An important contribution to a recent trend which sees anarchism not as derived from a European center but as a genuine Latin American phenomenon."--Bert Altena, coeditor of Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies "Thoughtful, well-researched, and well-written. As a collection, this goes a long way to furthering our understanding not just of anarchism in Latin America, but of anarchism more generally."--Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion. In this groundbreaking collection of essays, anarchism in Latin America becomes much more than a prelude to populist and socialist movements. The contributors illustrate a much more vast, differentiated, and active anarchist presence in the region that evolved on simultaneous--transnational, national, regional, and local--fronts. Representing a new wave of transnational scholarship, these essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation. They offer a variety of perspectives on anarchism’s role in shaping ideas about nationalism, identity, organized labor, and counterculture across a wide swath of Latin America.

An Aqueous Territory

An Aqueous Territory
Author: Ernesto Bassi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822373734

In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, indigenous peoples, and others reflected their perceptions of the Caribbean as a transimperial space where trade, information, and people circulated, both conforming to and in defiance of imperial regulations. Bassi demonstrates that the islands, continental coasts, and open waters of the transimperial Greater Caribbean constituted a space that was simultaneously Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Anglo-American, African, and indigenous. Exploring the "lived geographies" of the region's dwellers, Bassi challenges preconceived notions of the existence of discrete imperial spheres and the inevitable emergence of independent nation-states while providing insights into how people envision their own futures and make sense of their place in the world.

Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene

Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene
Author: Luis-Alberto Padilla
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030803996

In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems. This book introduces readers to current debates on sustainable development and to a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. Regional integration and supranational institutions are fundamental for sustainable development. The democratisation of the international system requires a new multilateralism. Global problems of demography, economic ideology of unlimited growth, the prevailing technocratic paradigm, consumerism, problems of waste, fossil fuels, industrial food production, use of fertilisers, water management and climate change are discussed, and the importance of multilateral agreements for security, sustainable peace and development is explored. This planetary crisis may be solved by international cooperation based on the UN sustainable development goals. This book - provides a concise synthesis of the main subjects of sustainable development studies- links development studies to multilateral diplomacy as practised by UN bodies and organisations- gives a new holistic and multidisciplinary approach to environmental and social sciences in the Anthropocene epoch.