Abstract The paper challenges mainstream theories of Latin American development, showing their theoretical weaknesses and pointing to role in ideologically mediating the region’s ‘truncated’ capitalism. To that end, presents an alternative view development starts by considering capitalist social reproduction as a worldwide process regional/national politico-economic mediations structuring globa...

We describe ongoing work aiming at deriving a multilingual controlled vocabulary (German, French, Italian) from the combined subject indices from 22 volumes of a large-scale critical edition of historical documents. The controlled vocabulary is intended to support editors in assigning descriptors to new documents and to support users in retrieving documents of interest regardless of the spellin...