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The city-states of fifteenth-century Italy exerted unprecedented cultural influence on Europe and the Mediterranean and acted as a bulwark against the imperial and bellicose designs of the empires that surrounded them. Acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and Baroque and grippingly portrays the complex interaction between art, science, politics and commerce...
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Bourgeois Dignity retells the story of modern economic growth, recasting what we thought we knew from 1776 to the present. McCloskey tests the traditional stories against what actually happenedùand the usual stories don't work very well. Not Marx and his classes. Not Max Weber and his Protestants. Not Fernand Braudel and his Mafia-style capitalists. Not Douglass North and his institutions. Not the mathematical theories of endogenous growth. Not the...
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¿Es posible imaginar un nuevo análisis histórico sobre la crisis y caída del gobierno de la Unidad Popular? En principio, parece difícil integrar otra explicación adicional a uno de los temas más trabajados de la historia reciente chilena y de la Guerra Fría latinoamericana. Sin embargo, el trabajo de investigación de Luis Garrido adopta un punto de vista original y desafiante, al integrar el marco teórico sistémico del sociólogo e historiador...
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