Books by "Manuel de Paz Sánchez"
3 books found
The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.
In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave uprisings lasting until the mid-1840s. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 examines this movement and its participants for the first time, highlighting the significance of African warriors in New World plantation society. Unlike previous slave revolts -- led by alliances between free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations -- only African-born men organized the uprising of 1825. From this year onwards, Barcia argues, slave uprisings in Cuba underwent a phase of Africanization that concluded only in the mid-1840s with the conspiracy of La Escalera, a large movement organized by free colored men with ample participation of the slave population. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 offers a detailed examination of the sociopolitical and economic background of the Matanzas rebellion, both locally and colonially. Based on extensive primary sources, particularly court records, the study provides a microhistorical analysis of the days that preceded this event, the uprising itself, and the days and months that followed. Barcia gives the Great African Revolt of 1825 its rightful place in the history of slavery in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Americas.
La Constitución de 1991: el ideal en medio de la tormenta
by Andrés Abel Rodríguez Villabona, Luis Manuel Castro Novoa
2025 · Universidad Nacional de Colombia
En términos generales, los trabajos que hacen parte de la obra colectiva «La Constitución de 1991: el ideal en medio de la tormenta» cuestionan la visión acrítica e idealizadora de nuestra Carta Política propia de las narrativas recurrentes de nuestra bibliografía reciente. De un lado, ponen en tela de juicio la percepción dominante según la cual hemos presenciado un desarrollo lineal y progresivo del discurso de los derechos, para evidenciar, en contraste, contextos de crisis y rupturas que reflejan también importantes retrocesos en la garantía y protección de los derechos, y en la propia jurisprudencia constitucional. De otro lado, también relativizan aquellos planteamientos dominantes que atribuyen los avances conseguidos exclusivamente a la labor de la Corte Constitucional, para lo cual reivindican el papel de los movimientos sociales y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en las dinámicas transformadoras y reformistas que han permitido significativas conquistas sociales en materia de derechos durante estas tres décadas. El primer volumen, «Discusiones fundamentales», presenta un conjunto de trabajos que examinan la Constitución en cuatro ámbitos o líneas temáticas: (i) sus antecedentes históricos, el contexto de su promulgación y los desarrollos que ha experimentado durante su vigencia; (ii) la Constitución frente a la construcción de paz y a la justicia transicional en Colombia; (iii) la democracia, la participación política y la movilización social, y (iv) el Estado social de derecho, el constitucionalismo, el control de constitucionalidad y la administración de justicia.