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A conferences paper about the mass media company Reuters is presented. It discusses a historical review of the company's sources of income, including other media companies and commercial establishments, such as financial institutions and other clients. It examines the development of the news agencies, as producers of material from their own correspondents and their own communication systems.

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The Chemistry in Cuba started at the beginning of the last century, involving fields like medicine and sugar cane industry. The chemical activities were associated with the names of Félix Varela, José A. Saco, José de la Luz y Caballero, José Casaseca and Álvaro Reynoso. In this paper an historical view of the Chemistry in Cuba since 1814 when the first cuban chemist Estevez y Cantal, analyzed the Ugalde¨s pill until nowadays is exposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretive proposal for one of the most common archaeological phenomenon in the Valley of Popayán, i.e., glazed ware, and thereby demonstrate that the disciplinary studies focused on the Colonial and Republican periods may be more useful than the simple corroboration of events told in history texts. In this sense, the mentioned work is more than a substantive production of the so-called historical archaeology and it is specifically circumscribed as a proposal within the framework of material culture studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, faunal remains in prehistorical and historical archeological contexts have been interpreted as a direct reflex of economic activities related to subsistence and diet. However, although this information is important, taken only as this disregards the huge potential that the study of cultural patterns associated to the selection, distribution, acquisition and consumption of fauna offers in relation to other aspects of everyday life and to the social and cultural transformation processes in general. In this paper and under this perspective the results from faunal samples corresponding to the second half of the 19th century when Quinta Bolivar was occupied are presented. Some of the inherent problems when interpreting social and economical differences and ethnic groups based on faunal remains are discussed in particular. Likewise, the importance of accompanying this type of analysis with documentary information relative to, among other aspects, the marketing, distribution, supply and value of meat cuts for the epoch is stressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Colombia there are few references related to the study on the production, circulation and consumption of Colonial wares and even scarcer are those that refer to industrial pottery. As such we are interested in opening the path for retrospective and interdisciplinary research on some aspects of the historical context in which these activities were immersed. The objective of this paper is to understand the purported effects that a factory for fine pottery established in Bogotá in the 19th century should have in this environment. A new socioeconomic order and the ending of traditions rooted in the Colonial regime were expected, based on the ideals of progress divulged by English industrialists. With this in mind the production technology, including its work regulation strategies and the pottery decorative styles, as a way of influencing daily consumption practices, will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the need to introduce recent History in the secondary school curriculum, discuss the difficulties implied in such decision, challenge the objections raised by the "Historical Corporation" and advocate for its importance in the development of individuals as citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the possible continuity between some practices of history and some proposals of the cultural studies, reading this continuity as a practice very common at the moment in which old and new intellectual trajectories converge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses the form and arguments used by J. Escriche (Spain, XIXth Century) to interpret the female condition in law and the legal status of women as presented in his Diccionario razonado de legislación y jurisprudencia (1847). The concept of "gender" as an analytical category facilitated the posing of research questions and analysis of the judiciary voices involving women. These, in most cases, implied an unequal relationship between sexes. Law -- as a social construction -reflected this relationship and institutionalized a judiciary dependence of women towards men. Spaces, functions and judiciary possibilities were delimited for women. The result was that the female condition derived in a different judiciary status with -- in general -- more restricted rights, especially for married women. According to Escriche, biological sex distinction had incidence in the differences in behavior and character -- women were weaker, frailer, inexpert and less intelligent, prudent or constant than men. Consequently, social patterns, habits and activities were established for each sex, as well as markedly different ideals of femaleness and maleness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a brief overview of the development of historical archaeology in Argentina, reviewing the early history of the discipline, related to other investigation spheres such as history and architecture, and moving forward to the latest developments. Some major events which specifically contributed to define the nature of the discipline, are mentioned here, as well as some facts that characterize the current practice of historical archaeology in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to center our thoughts in the metaphysics and ethics of Hegel's works, pointing out the relationship between the subject, the law and history. This theme arises from an interest in the text on Phenomenology found in the Prologue, number 11.1, entitled "The concept of the absolute as a concept of the subject". Our interpretation and analysis of this theme in the works of Hegel are clearly found in the context of crisis in modern thought and are declared to be the objective of metaphysics. Hegel has been identified as the major exponent of both concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents an historic analysis of the classification process of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera). The analysis is divided in three periods including 59 authors, beginning with Linné in 1735, and finishing in 2001 with Pretorius and Scholtz. The first period (1735-1856) was chosen, since it encompasses a time period prior to the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", and is therefore a classification process arguably free of any Darwinian evolutionary influences. There was a very quick development, in a relatively short period of time (1735-1796), in the number and type of characters used for classification purposes. On some occasions, certain authors reverted to the pre-Linnean tradition of using ecological characters. Likewise, the hierarchic structure of classifications developed rapidly into systems that any modern taxonomist can relate to. Authors like Linné, Fabricius and Latreille, who worked for long periods of time developing classificatory systems, always revolutionized systematics in their very first study. Later on, they remained conservative and made improvements only to the details of systematics. By 1856, the classification of the scarab beetles looks very akin to any present-day system. It is obvious that classifications similar to modern ones can be approximated without having to rely on Darwinian evolutionary principles. The second period (1869-1955) includes a comparative synthesis on the classification of the Coleoptera Lamellicornia based on faunistic and taxonomic works dealing with species from Central America, Europe, India and Indochina, as well as classic world wide checklists, that are representatives of the taxonomical criteria of 17 authors; the possible influence of Darwin's theories is discussed for each classification. Apparently, the main structure of the classification of scarab beetles during this time does not show substantial changes in relation with the proposals of Burmeister or Lacordaire. A large number of new morphological characters were added to the traditional ones, but the family level characters and their use were nearly the same as in the middle of the XIX century. Male genital capsules, internal organs and structures of the immature stages were cited for the first time as useful taxonomic characters, but as accesories of the traditional adult characters. Relations between the groups were eventually exposed as dendrogrames by Sharp and Muir (1912), Paulian (1948) and Crowson (1955), but without clear references to evolutionary theories. These classifications were more complex than the preceding ones, because of the addition of nearly 11,000 new species discovered along 80 years of world exploration. The third period (1957-2001) resumes and analyzes the classification proposals undertaken by 28 authors, based on monographs, faunal studies, keys for regional fauna, papers on comparative morphology, and studies specifically devoted to the understanding of phyletic relationships and evolutionary processes in Scarabaeoidea, for the whole group or for suprageneric groupings of this superfamily. One can detect the patent influence of organic evolution theories on these studies, as well as a progressive reflection of relationships in the proposed classifications, mainly through the use of cladistic and pheneticist approaches. Lately, molecular approaches have also been recruited; but even with all this technology, the main problem remains that most studies do not consider all the diversity of the Scarabaeoidea in one single analysis. Mention must be made of Endrödi's study (1966), who is the first to consider the whole group in analytic and comparative style, proposing to subdivide the Lamellicornia into five families: Scarabaeidae, Melolonthidae, Trogidae, Passalidae and Lucanidae.… [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the similarities in terms of historical conceptions between Hannah Arendt and Arthur Danto. On the basis of those similarities, and m view of the fact that the works of Arendt related to this subject were published before those of Dante- middle and late 50s- we will try to show how this authoress anticipated, m a certain way, the general approach of historical narrativism that began with Dante's publication in 1965 of his book Filosofia analítica de la historia en We also consider that, unlike Dante. Arendt deals not only with the epistemological issues of History but also with the relationship between History and Politics This particular aspect in Arendt's approach, that we will call the political dimension of History, plays a key role In the strengthening o1 the public sphere [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper deals with the history of institutionalized citizen participation in Mexico City. However, it doesn't attempt to make a thorough account of facts, mechanisms, instances and legal instruments which, dating from 1928 until the present day, preceded and characterized its building and formal development in this capital city. What this brief historical review particularly aims at, is at showing how was born a set of relations, practices and perceptions, that characterize a particular political culture, through the construction and functioning of "diverse" institutional modes along history. This current political culture is part of a symbolic universe that embodies traditions and customs that explain, to a very large extent, citizen participation's achievements and limitations within Mexico's capital city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the results of studies about broadcasting media in Brazil, the history of the radio is divided in three phases. The first embraces the period between 1922 and 1935, that corresponds to the experimental transmission stage. The second period (1935-1955) is characterized by the consolidation of the radio as a media. The last one, the period between 1955 and 1976, reflects the lost of media space due to the television. The present paper has the main proposal to describe the development of the radio as a media in Brazil and its role as advertising in every period. This paper also explains the use of radio advertising after the 70's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies about property rights have only recently started to attract the attention of economic historians in Argentina. In this paper, focusing upon normative aspects, it is our purpose to analyze changes and continuities produced within legal conceptions concerning the rights of property, family and heritage rights by the second half of the 19th century. Debates and speeches from politicians, lawyers, and owners, will be analyzed, as well as the expression they found in two key works: the Rural Code of the Province of Buenos Aires, from 1865, and the Civil Code from 1869 (promulgated in 1871), which stated -with different shades of meaning- private property as absolute, individual and inalienable. The balance between continuity/break up of conceptions and speeches posed from the law field will also allow to analyze its impact and projection over the configuration of the Argentinian society during the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Servius's Commentarii supported cultural and linguistic values of the pagan world, which existed through the process of triumphant Christianity's legalization. The paradigmatic authors Servius used were located in the rhetoric system as unconscious and conscious "strata", as a result of the intellectual background provided by the leading groups through Roman history. This paper demonstrates the stratified construction of Servius's Commentarii, with the purpose of rendering an evidence of this dialogic operation, which was characteristic of late antiquity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the last quarter of the 20th century intense changes took place in the macroeconomic conditions of Argentina. These transformations, based on the application of an economic policy contrary to the tenets of the welfare state and on a reshaping of the roles of the state, the market and society as a whole, deeply hindered the development of the local production. This article describes the main traits of Argentine economic policy between 1975 and 2005 and its impact on the dairy industry in the country as a whole and in La Pampa in particular taking into consideration a wide variety of sources which include not only statistical data and official information but also academic papers and reports published in national and local newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how history proved wrong Kant's ideas concerning the past and future of logic, found in the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason and in his Logic, A Manual for Lectures (1800). By following the path first envisioned by Leibniz, both George Boole and Gottlob Frege did what Kant deemed impossible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze a special industrial space created by the Cuban sugar industry: the batey, or sugar industrial town. The batey will be considered as a tourist resource, following the WTO's FAS model (Factors, Attractors and Support Services). The batey can be considered as a historical and artistic resource, demonstrating part of the island's heritage and economic/industrial past. First, this study analyzes the characteristics that define the batey as a tourist resource. Second, this study describes the conditions needed to transform a factor into an attractor, taking into account the socio-cultural and political context where the process takes place. The Batey Brasil is located in the Camagüey region. So it is important to take into consideration the opportunities and potential problems of developing a tourist product in this region. Finally, this paper ends with some policy recommendations for tourist development in Camagüey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper pretends to propose a defense of presentism as a form of historical narrative of science. First of all, the foundational ideas that sustain the attack on presentism as a way of doing the history of science will be presented. Next, we will present some arguments that have been offered as a defense of presentism from the theory of the history of science. Finally, we shall give a defense of presentism from the teaching of science that may cancel the negative visions about the Historian-Scientist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies why the Archbishop Víctor Manuel Sanabria supported the electoral alliance between the Republicano Nacional and Comunist parties in 1943. In addition, it examines to what extend this endorsement generated a division within the Costa Rican Catholic Church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From three particular works created in Latin America, the article proposes that the contribution of art for the construction of a more democratic culture lies in the work of art that opens the experience of memory as an origin from and by means of which things historical to us and speak to us. For this, the paper addresses works that propose the crisis of the modern museum in relation to history and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article illustrates the importance of commercial guides as a vulnerable historical source. The paper analyses in particular the Professional, Commercial and Industrial Guide of the Portuguese in Venezuela in which the historian finds, among other things, different kinds of statistics, cultural features, ideological backgrounds, meaningful advertisers and the making of commercial networks all over the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to discuss the possibilities and difficulties of environmental history to study the historical relationship between man and rivers. At the end, I develop a historical analysis about the Tibagi river in the State of Paraná along the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the cultural meanings of the indigenous uprising of 2001 in Upper Napo as a means to investigating indigenous historicity. Although there are various publications about the 2001 uprising, no one has looked at these events from the perspective of Kichwa historicity. The argument is that Amazonian Kichwa speakers structure and produce history through a conceptual complex of substance circulation (samai) that links social actors with primordial time-space. Using a historical testimony about Jumandy, the paper shows how the symbolic complex of Kichwa language-culture allows people to create links of substance and power with mythohistoric beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper constitutes a proposition for autonomous integration that propitiates regional negotiation in the face of the ALCA. To do this, it proposes to recuperate one's own ingenuity, which supposes surpassing the obstacle constructed by transitology, beyond abandonment of the structural historical focus and the inconsistent affirmation of social conflict as nineteenth-century, on spreading opposition between a supposed irrational revolutionary-ism from the seventies against the (liberal) democratism of the eighties. Thus, the way is opened to an appreciation of the utopian tension operating in history and the revolution ceases to be taboo or am anachronism, a question to be re-thought if there are any. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we try to recover, for the political history of Spanish philosophy, the polemic between Manuel Sacristán and Gustavo Bueno, which started at the beginning of 1968. From this historical perspective they propose finally some suggestive reflections on the current importance of the polemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Western historiography, like other social sciences, experienced an important shift in the seventies due to the emergence of the theories associated with the linguistic turn, postmodernism and postestructuralism. Hayden White was one of the historians who led this transformation in the historical discipline. He argued that a historical text could be compared to a literary artifact on the leven of the form, since both use the same instrument narrative-- to representation the truth whose content is factual events in history and fiction in literature. This idea revolutionized contemporary approaches to the interpretation of historical texts. This paper analyzes White's theories and its effects on contemporary historical writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the results obtained in didactic research on the process of scientific model constructions in the classroom, this paper examines the consequences of this process regarding the interactions that the didactics of modelling would generate, given the change introduced by modelling as an emerging intentionality in scientific education. Regarding the construction of models in the classroom, it is specified that the corresponding didactic work is focused on the ones agreed upon by the respective community of specialists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, psychology and psychotherapy fields have gone through several crises due to different reasons. The present paper analyzes the crisis of psychotherapy in relation to its object of study, i.e. man as a subject who undergoes continuous changes and experiences. This crisis of man claims for a psychotherapy able to answer existential questions which are essential to his nature. Hence, existential and humanist philosophy, and the subsequent psychotherapy approaches are analyzed as an answer to this man in crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two hundredth anniversary of the British Invasions of the Silver River (1806-1807) gives rise to a reading of the events from the viewpoint of one of the cities involved: Montevideo. The main qualities which emerged at that time and which are dealt with in this paper are twofold. In the first place, loyalty, which also allows the wealth of the city-port to be appreciated and was expressed by means of individual and corporate decisions; amongst others, those of the Commercial Body and the Guild of Landowners, Meat-Curers and Purveyors. In the second place, autonomy; a blend of the special sovereignty which is deeply rooted in the Hispanic tradition, and commercial jealousy in the face of the arrogance of the Viceroyal Capital. Loyalty and autonomy are the thus the qualities which are weighed in the struggle against the invader and which come into play a few years later at the start of the process of independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper describes the evolution of Galician Civil Law from its customary origins till the current Act on Galician Civil Law 2006. The article also discusses the structure of the Act describing its new developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To make an approach about the history of people, also means inquiring in its culture, taking into account that those signs which may seem irrelevant will became significant. Thus, many symbolic elements can be rescued from different sources and we can start a huge variety of contrast which legitimize the various identities. The scene of this interpretation will be Mar del Plata, a seaside place during the first years of the twentieth century. In such period, the rural aspect was changing into a typical seaside European village where they could show off and prove their roles. We'll search for unpublished material from the files of Stella Maris School and Church, written papers and visual images. So, as long as we accede to these pieces of visual and written evidence we'll have clear social representations and testimonies of how elite groups held their privileges as opposed to the permanent population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When using history as a source of moral lessons, Glover assumes that his analysis is ethical in character and morally good. How to justify both assumptions is our aim in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the construction of Chilean image in Andres Sabella's works, focusing on his university lectures, conferences and articles, unedited or unknown. For this purpose, two topics are analyzed: the sense of equalitarianism in history and literature and the national archetype- the Chilean "roto" and his daily image, from the XVI century to the mid-XX century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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