Catolicismo y política en Puerto Rico

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This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

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...

El gigante inquieto nos cuenta la historia de los Estados Unidos en los tiempos, cambiantes y revueltos, que van de la caída de Nixon, en 1974, a la presidencia de G.W. Bush en 2001. Patterson no sólo nos habla aquí de los grandes hitos de la política internacional –el fin de la guerra fría, la revolución iraní, Bosnia, la Guerra del Golfo...- y de las figuras dominantes de la época, como Reagan o Clinton, sino que presta una atención especial, y en esto reside uno de sus rasgos más innovadores y atractivos, a la evolución interior de la sociedad norteamericana: a fenómenos de...