This volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, with issues still vital after more than a millennium as cultures face off and open or close frontiers to ideas, customs, ...ideologies and the arts.
The Spanish Arcadia Irigoyen-Garcia, Javier
The Spanish Arcadia,
2014, 20131231, 2013, 2013-01-01, 2013-12-31
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Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern ...Spain.
When J. H. Elliott publishedSpain and Its World, 1500-1700some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, "For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a ...book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has continued to explore the history of Spain and the Hispanic world with originality and insight, producing some of the most influential work in the field. In this new volume he gathers writings that reflect his recent research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800.
The volume includes fourteen essays, lectures, and articles of remarkable breadth and freshness, written with Elliott's characteristic brio. It includes an unpublished lecture in honor of the late Hugh Trevor-Roper. Organized around three themes-early modern Europe, European overseas expansion, and the works and historical context of El Greco, Velázquez, Rubens, and Van Dyck-the book offers a rich survey of the themes at the heart of Elliott's interests throughout a career distinguished by excellence and innovation.
Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®, veteran journalist William Chislett recounts the country's fascinating and often ...turbulent history, its present economic crisis, and talks about the road ahead for the nation.
In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain ...kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of colonialism are best explained by the potentially evolving fit between the institutions of the colonizing nation and those of the colonized society. Moreover, he shows how institutions forged under colonialism bring countries to relative levels of development that may prove remarkably enduring in the postcolonial period. The argument is sure to stir discussion and debate, both among experts on Spanish America who believe that development is not tightly bound by the colonial past, and among scholars of colonialism who suggest that the institutional identity of the colonizing nation is of little consequence.
In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail ...Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s to the end of the civil war in 1939.
Drawing on a very broad range of Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently available, Payne changes our understanding of Soviet and Communist intentions in Spain, of Stalin's decision to intervene in the Spanish war, of the widely accepted characterization of the conflict as the struggle of fascism against democracy, and of the claim that Spain's war constituted the opening round of World War II. The author arrives at a new view of the Spanish Civil War and concludes not only that the Democratic Republic had many undemocratic components but also that the position of the Communist party was by no means counterrevolutionary.
Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique, The Granny
and the Heist ( La estanquera de Vallecas ) is the play
with which José Luis Alonso de Santos reinvigorated the Spanish
stage during a ...period of uncertainty upon the death of Francisco
Franco and the end of theatre censorship. Premiered in 1981, it
established Alonso de Santos as the most important playwright in
Spain at a time when the country was emerging from decades of
relative isolation from the rest of Europe. Set in a working class
area of Madrid, the play tells the story of Leandro and Tocho, two
out of work builders whose plan to rob a tobacconists goes awry due
to the refusal of its owner, feisty grandmother Justa, to hand over
the money. Barricading themselves in the shop as the forces of
order arrive, the men take Justa and her granddaughter Ángeles
hostage. In the stand-off that ensues, Alonso de Santos deftly
interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great
tenderness, eliciting our sympathy for the residents of the
Vallecas neighbourhood, equally ignored by Spain's nascent
democracy as they had been under the dictatorship. This edition
features Stuart Green's facing page translation, as well as a
critical introduction that provides readers with knowledge of the
historical and cultural context in which the play was written and
performed. The edition also includes an extensive collection of
classroom activities especially designed by Lucy Meyer and Stuart
Green to enable secondary school and university teachers to use the
play, its translation and other authentic materials to teach a
variety of linguistic and grammatical features of Spanish in all
four skills areas in language learning.
Throughout history, Basque men and women have made contributions in navigation, education, science, fashion, politics, and many other fields. Too often these achievements have been overlooked, or ...have been claimed as the accomplishments of others. Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World profiles seven remarkable Basques who were the first in their fields to do something—something extraordinary—that had a dramatic impact on others who followed them. The profiles use primary sources to tell fresh stories and offer a wonderful variety, showing the astonishing breadth of Basque contributions. They include Juan Sebastían Elcano, the first person to circumnavigate the earth; St. Ignatius of Loyola, the first Jesuit to seed a worldwide movement in education; Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Father of Neurology and a Nobel laureate; Cristóbal Balenciaga, the king of haute couture; Paul Laxalt, one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics; and Edurne Pasaban, the first woman to climb the world's fourteen tallest mountains. Basque Firsts provides a rare look at a culture's people, revealing the significant contributions they have shared.
Winner of the 2013 La corónica International Book Award Audacious transgressors, rebellious sowers of discord, a brood of vipers - so leaders of the Order of Preachers described their own men. This ...lively study of costly corporate successes and failed reforms restores to the late medieval friars their complex humanity.
Bridge Kortazar, Jon
2019., 2019, Volume:
49
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Este libro reflexiona sobre las representaciones y tensiones en las relaciones culturales entre los Estados Unidos y el País Vasco. La puesta en marcha del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (1997) demostró ...fehacientemente las diversas capacidades de capital simbólico que se ponían en juego en la sociedad vasca. Los trabajos que aquí se presentan analizan los distintos elementos de identidad cultural que se debaten hoy en día. En la primera parte se ofrece una interpretación de las imágenes que los vascos han producido en la literatura escrita en los Estados Unidos. La segunda parte aborda la influencia de la cultura americana en la sociedad vasca actual. Se muestran nuevos caminos en el estudio de los sistemas culturales, de los que se obtiene una perspectiva que va más allá del análisis de la literatura y toma en cuenta otras prácticas artísticas, como la pintura y la escultura, el cine, el cómic, el arte transmedia y la canción.
El libro se cierra con la aportación de tres conocidos creadores vascos que cuentan su experiencia en tierras americanas. Texto de la editorial
