Tres meses con las fuerzas de choque

El presente volumen, compilado a partir de un seminario de graduados impartido en el Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Florida, reúne diversos ensayos y ponencias del historiador Germán Carrera Damas que analizan las perversiones que a lo largo de la historia, y en el presente venezolano, han asaltado al culto a Bolívar. El autor sostiene que, desde Páez a Guzmán Blanco, desde Gómez hasta Chávez, se ha recurrido a la figura de El Libertador convirtiendo el bolivarianismo en un fundamentalismo, en un culto sacralizado que, sumado al elemento militarista, resulta en...

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En el primer libro de la colección se compilan una serie de artículos que abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, algunos de los enigmas que aquella geografía especulativa planteó a los expedicionarios, que buscaron resolverlos con sus sorprendentes viajes, en los que se conjugaban los intereses, ambiciones, ilusiones, imaginarios, mentiras y conocimientos que con tanto cuidado luego fueron registrados en los maravillosos mapas producidos a partir del siglo XVI. Cada artículo del libro refleja lo que es la cartografía, la convergencia de disciplinas, miradas e interpretaciones de...

The area of Amalthea, better known as Central College, was platted by Timothy Lee in 1816. Situated three miles southeast of Westerville, Central College was built along Big Walnut Creek. A college known as the Blendon Institute was formed in 1832. In 1842, the institute was given to the Presbyterian church to form the Central College of Ohio. However, due to financial struggles, the school--later known as Central College Academy--closed in 1894. The Ohio School for the Deaf Alumni Association purchased the defunct school property and created the Ohio Home for the Aged and Infirm Deaf; it was ...