This paper analyzes the position of the Chilean Catholic Church in the debate on national development and the Alliance for Progress that took place in the
country during 1961-1970. The Church participated in the public discussion through the magazine Mensaje, in which positions were opposed between economic (material) development and spiritual…[Read more]

This article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]

Brazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]

This chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]

En este libro se analiza la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finalidad de difundir…[Read more]

This is a chapter about the Chilean experience toward Democracy (1983-1990).

El objetivo general de este trabajo es analizar la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finali…[Read more]

The Brazilian Northeast has been a constant subject for journalists of one of the world’s leading media companies – The New York Times – between 1933 and 1945. This study investigates the multiple Northeast representations formulated in The New York Times’ pages when the Americans were spotlight is on the region. It delineates similarities and…[Read more]

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]