SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Author: CARLO ALTIERI GERARDO.
Year: 2003.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The time constraints of work is because in 1831 was founded and until 1861 the presidency of the institution was in the hands of the governor. It is from the last date when it is separated from the executive branch of the judiciary that happens at the hands of a regent counsel. The importance of the topic of the thesis is based on that until this moment had not been discussed in depth this institution. The basic conclusions were: Hearing to be professionalised the administration of justice, begins the separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches, and there was a certain balance of the state powers.

Author: ORTEGA ESQUINCA AGUSTIN.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE PREHISTORIA Y ARQUEOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE PREHISTORIA Y ARQUEOLOGÍA.

Summary: Lecture on community Cucapa the low delta of the Colorado River, Baja California, Mexico, from a social perspective and interdisciplinary analysis contrasts that integrates and paleoclimate, geographical, archaeological, historical, anthropological, ethnographic, lingüsticos and registration of missionaries. The thesis is organized into four sets of chapters, which deal with the background (1Â first part), the community Cucapa before the eighteenth century (2Â first part), in the eighteenth century (3Â Part I), final proposals (4Â part). The substantive analysis are contained in Parts Two and Three. The second part discusses the proposals on the sequences archaeological realize cultures yumana and Hohokam. Subsequently, the reform of basic data (archaeological, paleoclimático and ethnographic) to make a proposal on the establishment of indigenous communities in the Sonoran Desert. In the third part, integrating information generated entre los siglos XVI to XX on the community Cucapa, which includes reports from explorers viceroyalty novohispano, missionary relations, the Mexican government reports and registration ethnographic and historical and anthropological studies on community Cucapa. From the matching of this information, proposes a geographical demarcation attempt on their ethnic territory, as well as aces to define their way of life and their social upbringing, also presented a study on their participation in the network of alliances and the regional conflicts lower basin of Colorado-Gila and in the construction of tribal confederations, as well as the expansion of the border novohispana toward the northwest. In the process of investigating the community was considered in three interrelated areas of society, as defined by ethnic, regional and global levels. The first is the community itself, which is considered full social and concrete company in the areas of social information, lifestyle and culture. The second, that of regional interaction with its neighbors, namely, the clash of "us" from the Cucapa with "otherness", this area was subdivided into three geographical areas that are low delta Colorado, lower basin of the rivers Colorado-Gila and the Sonoran Desert. The third relates to the effects of the expansion of imperialism Hispanic through the system misión-presidio-real of mines on the routes that formed a boundary to be expanded by the Sonoran Desert, an area which is currently shared by Northwest Mexico and the southwestern United States. To that end, he examines how this system expansionist affected indigenous communities in the lower basin of Colorado-Gila and, in particular, the Cucapa.