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Este libro reúne doce estudios sobre la historia social del período colonial en los Andes peruanos y ecuatorianos, que se publicaron en Europa y América Latina a lo largo de los últimos quince años. Para esta edición han sido reagrupados alrededor de tres grandes temas (pareja y familia como reveladores sociales, resistencia negra, y fallas y grietas del sistema colonial), pero en conjunto son el fruto de una reflexión a largo plazo sobre las expresiones y el significado de los comportamientos sociales, el manejo por los dominados (esclavos, indígenas, mujeres) de las pocas...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

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