Pugnas por la sierra.

"Las ciudades, como los sueños, están construidas de deseos y temores" escribió Ítalo Calvino. Las metamorfosis de una ciudad ocuparon siempre el centro de los debates y las discusiones culturales, políticas e ideológicas. Buenos Aires no fue la excepción. A principios del siglo XX, sus cambios pudieron ser leídos en clave de evolución y progreso o como elementos desestabilizadores de los sistemas y valores vigentes. Hacia el Centenario, su paisaje urbano fue el tema elegido por diversos artistas. Entonces, nacionalismo y cosmopolitismo fueron los términos que marcaron las tensiones ...

Jorge Garcia Montes was born in New York, United States, on october 19, 1898. His father, Jose Maria Garcia Montes, was exiled during the war of Cuba's independence against the Spaniards. Later, he became the first Secretary of Finance in 1902 with the first President of the Republic of Cuba, Tomas Estrada Palma. He studied at the University of Havana, where he graduated with a Law degree in 1917. An eminent student, he recieved several awards, among them the Lanuza prize. Elected to the House of Representatives from the Province of Santa Clara, Garcia Montes was a member of the Liberal...

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Include among the articles are "Down from Colonialism: Mexico's Nineteenth-Century Crisis", Jaime E. Rodriguez O., "Los liberales y la iglesia", Patricia Galeana de Valades; "El pensamiento de los conservadores mexicanos", Maria del Refugio Gonzalez; and "Patriarchy and the Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest", Richard Griswold del Castillo. Also includes a bibliography and an index.