Empresas coloniales

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Durante la llamada Belle Époque, París se convirtió en el centro cultural del mundo. Un período en el que la relativa paz, los avances científicos, tecnológicos y las nuevas obras de ingeniería invadían un mundo en el que la ociosa burguesía buscaba salir de su hastío con la celebración de grandes banquetes, fiestas donde corría el champán, y las mujeres y hombres abrazaban el adulterio sin sonrojo y los grandes acontecimientos mundiales celebraban cada nuevo invento como una carrera hacia un futuro sin límites a la imaginación. París era una ciudad bulliciosa en la que los...

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"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.