This article inquires into the relationship between punishment and social order in colonial Latin America, especially during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Nuevo Reino de Granada. For this purpose, punishment is understood not only as a means of social regulation but also as an advantageous way to study the colonial order. Thus, the proposal explores the link between sanction...
The article presents in a abbreviated manner the results of field research on the names proprietors gave to their slaves and the identities of slaves in the process of abolition of slavery in Cuba. In giving slaves only the first surname of one of their last owners and denying them the second surname in legal documents, a process of race-race-marking and race-making began after...
The historic tension between freedom and slavery in the Nuevo Reino de Granada constitutes a challenge for current historiography that attempts to trace the study of systems of slavery. This article, as an initial reflection, proposes discarding unilateral visions that project freedom and slavery as two historically separate entities. It proposes instead the concept of the...
Based on the exploration of three approaches to crossbreeding in the colonial history of Latin America: Race Mixture in the History of Latin America by Magnus Mörner, El Mestizaje como Gesta by Juan Olaechea Labayen and El Pensamiento Mestizo by Serge Gruzinski, the purpose of this article is to shed light on some of the limitations of the linguistic and conceptual tools...
The main objective of this article is to try to explain the concept of globalization. In the first part, some of the difficulties encountered in trying to explain the globalization phenomenon in an integral way are described. The author then analyzes various concepts that are referenced in the content of the globalization concept as a whole, such as: process, capitalism, market...
The article proposes a reading of the "Plan of the Constitutions Presented to His Excellency the Viceroy of the Kingdom for San Pedro’s Royal Hospital in the Parish of Zipaquirá, " written by Pedro Fermín de Vargas, corregidor (chief Spanish colonial judge) at that time and one of the most outstanding illustrious persons in New Granada. Said plan reveals the introduction of some...
The following article explores the rhetoric of the Catholic Church in Barranquilla during a period of political and juridical instability. The struggle between Liberals and Conservatives in their attempt to build a nation according to their own ideological interests led the Church to adhere to the political project of the Conservative party since it supported and vindicated the...
Dianmond, Jared, Guns Germs, and Steel. The Fates of Human Societies, Nueva York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997, 480 pp.(Publicado en castellano como Armas, Gérmenes y Acero. La sociedad humana y sus destinos, Madrid, Editorial Debate, 1998, 527 pp.) Eduardo Sáenz RovnerProfesor Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Jared Diamond, profesor en la Universidad de California en...
La Rosa, Michael, De la izquierda a la derecha. La Iglesia católica en la Colombia contemporánea, Bogotá, Planeta, 2000, 272 pp. Ricardo AriasProfesor del Departamento Historia de la Universidad de los Andes.La presentación y el prefacio de este libro destacan, con justa razón, la poca importancia que ha merecido el estudio de la Iglesia católica colombiana en los medios...
Varios, Éxodo, patrimonio e identidad. Memorias de la V cátedra de historia Ernesto Restrepo Tirado, Bogotá, Museo Nacional de Colombia, Ministerio de Cultura, 2001, 503 pp. Fabio Zambrano Profesor del Departamento de Historia, Universidad de los Andes. Profesor Titular maestro Universitario, Universidad Nacional. Desde hace seis años el Museo Nacional de Colombia ha convocado al...
NIETO OLARTE, Mauricio, Profesor de Historia de las Ciencias (Departamento de Historia, Universidad de los Andes) y de Historia de la Medicina (Facultad de Medicina, Universidad El Bosque). Este libro de Mauricio Nieto, profesor y ex-Director del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de los Andes, recoge lo fundamental de su trabajo de doctorado en el Imperial College de la...
TOLERANCIA E INTOLERANCIA. SUS ORÍGENES Y CONSECUENCIAS EN LA HISTORIA DE LA CIVILIZACIÓN OCCIDENTAL Jaime JaramilloConferencia presentada en la Universidad de la Sabana (30 de agosto de 2001). Profesor del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de los Andes.En primer lugar doy excusas por el solemne título que he dado a esta intervención, pero bien miradas las cosas el...