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La región europea en formación
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2001)
This work -which is part of a broader research project upon tne institutional spaces of the
modern economy- is an initial reflection about the first experiment in the building of a post-national
institutional space. It ...
Clock watchers and stargazers: on time discipline in early-modern Berlin
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2006)
This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with
clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in
the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in ...
Saving the nation through exclusion: the alien and sedition acts and Mexico's expulsion of spaniards
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2005)
This essay explores, in a comparative perspective, two moments in the life of two young American republics during which strong nativist feelings were crystallized into law: the US’s Alien Law of 1798, and Mexico’s expulsion ...
Las uniones creativas
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2001)
El privilegio de pertenecer: las comunidades de fieles y la crisis de la monarquía católica
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2005)
Over the last 15 years, new studies in the political history of Latin America
have shown that the political crisis of the Catholic Monarchy initiated with the
1808 Napoleonic invasion of Spain which, in turn, produced a ...
Conscience and the rhetoric of freedom: Fichte's reaction to the edict on religion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2008)
This essay explores Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s supposedly critical reaction to Prussia’s Edict on Religion of 1788. The word “supposed” is acceptable here, because in the course of his career, Fichte actually took both sides ...
Germans in space: astronomy and anthropologie in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2006)
Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether ...
México en un espejo: testimonio de los oficiales franceses de la intervención, 1862-1867
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2000)
Based on a sociological and historical inquiry of military officers involved in the French Intervention of Mexico, I attempt to reconstruct their first impressions of Mexico. These special tourists left an abundant amount ...
La Comanchería
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2009)
This paper addresses a key problem for the study of northern Mexico, specifically in the mid-nineteenth century: the Comancheria, singular empire for the inaccuracy of its borders and its "multilevel" political structure. ...
Aperturas chinas (1898, 1919, 1978)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2005)
The Chinese experience of political reform and economic openeness can be divided in three cycles: 1898, 1919 and 1978. The last one has been, until now, the most successful in its social and economic consequences. This ...