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As the 21st Century unfolds, the traditional welfare state that evolved during the 20th Century faces serious threats to the solidarity that social programs were meant to strengthen. The rise of populist and nationalist parties reflects the decline of a sense of belonging and inclusiveness that mass education and economic progress were meant to foster, as traditional politics and parties are rejected by working- and middle-class individuals who were previously their staunchest supporters. Increasingly, these groups reject the growing gaps in income, power, and privilege that they perceive between themselves and highly educated and cosmopolitan business, academic, and political elites. When S...
Actas del Primer Congreso Iberoamericano de Recursos Humanos y Responsabilidad Social, realizado en la ciudad de Celaya, Guanajuato, México en el mes de Marzo de 2016, en las Instalaciones del I.T de Celaya. Coorganizado por el Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Universidad de Guanajuato, Universidad Politécnica de Guanajuato y la Universidad Da Coruña
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin--prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters--between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries The New Christian elite of Jewish origin were at the forefront of early modern globalisation from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Either forced to convert to Christianity or descended from those who were, these Iberian traders, merchants, and bankers with links to the academic world and liberal professions played a pivotal role in intercontinental trade for two centuries--only to decline, and virtually disappear as an ethnic elite, by the mid-1700s. In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt offers a comprehensi...
The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel’s legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?
Pilar, de campo a ciudad es un resumen de la historia desde la llegada del aborigen hasta el siglo XXI, distintos hechos políticos, económicos y sociales, el paso de instituciones, pioneros y vecinos de Pilar.