The author studies the impact made by the creation and operation of the Petrochemical Complex of Bahía Blanca (Argentina) on its local environment. He reviews its regional, organizational, and economic history since the seventies, when its establishment started to be considered. He continues with its complicated commissioning. Then, he analyses the different conversion process that were implemented to achieve the important productive progress that the pole currently enjoys. The author also presents some theoretical assumptions that guided the research on space economy problems. Finally, he articulates economic theory to history analysis, with the aim of establishing how far the process of local development of Bahía Blanca has progressed due to the performance of this enormous industrial complex over the past years.

The care of minors considered to be in moral and material hazard in Argentina in early XXth century is often left in charge of charity institutions, in which benefactor women obtain a special leading role. The aim of this paper is to identify the duties assumed by women in emergence and growth period of Bahia Blanca’s Child Board, portraying them in the framework of the relationships they establish with people close to them, and in the gender representation that emerge from those relationships. Based on experiences and speeches related to the mentioned case, it is worth considering how the places held by benefactor women are defined regarding men from their social circle, and other women from different occupations and social strata, who get involved with the institution such as wet nurses and nuns. In this paper, it is explained that the performance of promoters of these entrepreneurship represents -in many ways- a transgression of prevailing models of femininity. Nevertheless, this performance is associated by both women and men with their activities with those dominant assumptions.

In this paper, notarial and countable documents of Hacienda la Morela, as well as correspondence of Escobar Villegas family from 1870 to 1988 are analyzed. Based on document collection, the author studies the participation of the members of this family in several entrepreneurial societies that formed in livestock business, as well as some factors that influenced the business developed among Medellin, Puerto Berrio, and Valle del Sinú, during most of the XXth century.

This study is located in space and time in Donato Guerra, a municipality located in western State of Mexico, Mexico; in a transition period during the first decades of the XXth century. It is known that after the Revolution, no significant changes were produced immediately in land tenure system, in world’s perceptions or in some moral economy settled since colonial times. Practices inherited from Porfirism and education formed a society in which well-differentiated values were proposed according to gender and social standing. Within this framework, the contemporary report of young Conception- today a 90-year-old woman- is analyzed. In her memory, a supposed loyalty network between landlords and servants appears, and the less kind aspects of workers’ exploitation are forgiven. The evocation of names of those times -but also what is not mentioned- illustrates how social mobility was still forbidden to those whose ethnic condition is invisible in most of the report. It shows also the disqualification they were subjected to, among other aspects.

La internacionalización de HiSTOReLo es evidente no sólo en la composición y calidad de su Comité Científico, sino también porque la revista está abierta a proyectos de publicación de factura internacional, como lo propone el primer segmento del presente vol. 4, núm. 7 de 2012. Nuestros pares académicos de Argentina y México son muestra de ello. El segundo segmento se relaciona con el caso antioqueño en Colombia y ofrece tres artículos en que ubican a la ciudad de Medellín y su entorno en un marco de cambios urbanos, sociales y culturales a comienzos del siglo XX. Finalmente, se ofrece un tercer segmento con cuatro textos relacionados con idearios políticos e ideológicos del caso colombiano en los que tiene experiencias de las regiones de Boyacá, Antioquia y Tolima

Taking into account the satire’s subversive nature and its role in “social reproduction” of ideologies, this paper points at the position of the satirical journal El Bateo about Enrique Olaya Herrera’s government. It describes the gradual disappointment of this journal -attached to radical liberalism- about the “national concentration” government. It mentions how El Bateo supported Olaya’s candidacy through a “messiah-savior” image, and how it later subverted this very image by means of an open criticism to this government. For this analysis, some notes by George Balandier and Ernst Gombrich on the dramatic nature of power and on satire are collected.

En su libro, Juan Carlos Peña Márquez ofrece, de manera creativa, una descripción sobre el proceso histórico, económico y socio-cultural, que dio origen a la ciudad de Mitú, ubicada en la selva de la Amazonía colombiana. Se trata de un texto que muestra el proceso de emergencia urbana en medio de la selva, acaecido con la participación de distintos pueblos y culturas que con sus valores y saberes participaron en el proceso de encuentro intercultural. Con ello, se desprendió la resignificación del territorio y de las identidades culturales para constituir territorialmente una sociedad incluyente donde sus habitantes pudieran relacionarse de la mejor manera.

This paper offers a comprehension on the urban and social transformation of Medellin, Colombia from 1890 to 1930. This phenomenon responds to a time of global changes in which countries producers of raw material were linked to. This approach offers a general perspective based on secondary information sources, which are contrasted with primary evidences from that time.

In this paper, we analyze the influence of political discourses made by Nepomuceno Niño and José Joaquín Camacho that publicly circulated through the national and regional press during the first republican experience from 1810 to 1815. This study focuses on understanding how the region tried to build nation. It is clear that the press closure by the government of Cundinamarca caused ideas to circulate through friends and family circles in a closer environment, which allowed to extend that political thinking. On the other hand, the approach of this paper shows the radicalization of the discourses with which it was expected to build a State project, and which polarized the relationship between nationals in defense of Federalism or Centralism, trying to impose a project of nation as it is observed in the case of the Province of Tunja.

This article analyses the experience of the first mass transportation system in the city of Medellin, Colombia: the electric local train. It analyses the emergence, the construction and the consolidation process of this mean of transport. Its operation as an official business project is studied as well as the different circumstances that led it to be the axe of the road system, and the crises that finally caused its decline and closure. Also, the impact of this work on the process of urban modernization lived by the city from 1920 to 1951 is here described and analyzed.

This paper is about retaking an approach made by the English historian Eric Hobsbawm, in the sense of reworking social bandit’s typology. According to him, in order to rework it, many more case studies were needed. Based on some of them, this paper focuses on accounting for the debate generated by Hobsbwm banditry’s model since mid-20th century. First, I account for the way his disciples and critics have interpreted his model, mainly that of the social bandit. A second aspect deals with some cases of Mediterranean banditry, especially the Catalan, the Italic and the one that took place in Maghreb. Finally, I account for a particular case of social banditry in Tolima, Colombia: the one of “Palomo Aguirre”.