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With piercing clarity

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el miedo y el odio

Una virtud de este libro es su linaje ecuménico

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in 19th-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico Casa Publicadora_Blume Páginas: 136As an inchoate middle class emerged in Puerto Rico in the early nineteenth century, its members sought to control not only public space, but also the people, activities, and even attitudes that filled it. Their instruments were the San Juan town council and the Casa de Beneficencia, a state run charitable establishment charged with responsibility for the poor. In this book, Teresita Martnez Vergne explores how municipal officials and the Casa de