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The renaissance and the round ball: spheres, globes and the early modern spatial imagination
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2013)
The contemporary literature on the Renaissance invention of terrestrial globes is fixated on the images that globemakers drew, expending great energy in determining how “correct” they were. This essay, in contrast, understands ...
Human space: the rise of Euclidism and the construction of an early-modern world, 1400-1800
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2011)
This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric ...
Spanning the poles: spatial thought and the global backdrop to our globalizad world, 1450-1850
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2012)
This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language
of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in
ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through ...
"Hasta la próxima crisis": Historia cíclica, virtudes genealógicas y la identidad de clase media entre los afectados por la debacle financiera en la Argentina (2001-2002)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2010)
The idea of middle class in Argentina has always been based on a linear and
progressive perspective of national history. In fact, middle class people are
considered descendant of European immigrant ancestors who arrived ...
Strangers to the world: astronomy and the birth of anthropology in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2011)
An important strain in the literature on the rise of anthropological thought in
the early-modern world identifies anthropological thought’s biggest insight
as the ascription of unity to the human species via the encounter ...
La era legislativa en Nápoles: de soberanías y tradiciones
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2010)
The government of Ferdinand of Bourbon IV of Naples and I of the Two
Sicilies, coincides with the second moment of the Neapolitan reformism that
saw the efforts to apply the most outstanding ideas developed by
Neapolitan ...
Portada
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
Cajón de sastre
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
La soledad del Homo sapiens
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
Criminalidad organizada e instituciones: el caso siciliano
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2010)
Organized crime is considered here through a specific case: Sicily. After the World War Two, mafia emancipated from landed aristocracy (under which deployed his office of control and intimidation of rural workers) to project ...