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Diplomacia y acción cultural americana en la España de Primo de Rivera
El eje que articula las diferentes aportaciones contenidas en este libro cruza la acción de la diplomacia y de agentes culturales americanos que se emplearon, ya fuera de manera oficial o privada, en promover o participar en iniciativas que tuvieron lugar en la coyuntura de la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera. En el impulso que el régimen se propuso dar a las relaciones con América, que pasó a ocupar un lugar destacado en la política exterior, la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla fue, sin duda, la manifestación simbólica de mayor envergadura. A través de distintas aportaciones, esta cuestión es analizada aquí bajo el prisma del diálogo entre políticos y otros agentes sociales en tiempos de afirmación de la diplomacia, tanto de la oficial como de la paralela. Por otro lado, algunas contribuciones centran su atención en otro tipo de hitos, políticos y culturales, que traducen aspectos diferentes de las relaciones trasatlánticas en tiempos del directorio primorriverista.
España como escenario. Política y acción cultural de diplomáticos latinoamericanos (1880-1936)
Este libro se centra en el papel de la acción cultural desarrollada por algunos personajes latinoamericanos que residieron en España entre 1880 y 1936. A través de diversos enfoques analíticos, se abordan las trayectorias de diplomáticos de diferente rango que, al margen del ejercicio de sus funciones de representación, actuaron en la vida cultural española. Las diferentes aportaciones se sustentan sobre un amplio repertorio de fuentes procedentes en buena medida de los Archivos Nacionales y de Relaciones Exteriores de España, México, Uruguay, Guatemala, Colombia, Perú y Chile, así como de otros repositorios públicos y privados de Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Huelva y Barranquilla.
Different
A resonant, captivating book about a brother and sister caught in a dark chapter of world history. Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. For almost three years, ordinary citizens lived in fear of bombs dropping from the sky. When fascist dictator Francisco Franco declared victory, he began to persecute everyone who had once opposed him. Spain became a country of secrets, where anyone who was different was in danger. Different explores this turbulent period through the voices of seven-year-old Socorro and nine-year-old Paco. Because Papa has fled Spain due to his political beliefs, the siblings and their mother must hide the truth in order to survive. Paco is always hungry, a...
Archer M. Huntington
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This organization, which served as a bridge between artists in Spain and wealthy patrons in the States, was the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and passion for Spanish culture for Huntington, one he would grapple with throughout his public and intellectual life. In Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America, Patricia Fernández Lorenzo offers, for the first time in English, a complete biography of Huntington, tracing his enthusiasm for Spain and the arts from his childhood, to his marriage to sculptor Anna Hyatt and his crisis of conscience in the wake of the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing heavily from Archer’s correspondence and from Anna Hyatt Huntington’s papers, housed at Syracuse University, Fernández Lorenzo offers a full, deeply human portrait of one of the great patrons of Spanish art, giving a comprehensive look at Huntington’s role in defining Hispanicism in the United States.
Papyrus
A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world "Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo’s passionate narrative presence and her synthesising intelligence.” —The Guardian Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and pharaohs, determined to possess them, dispatched emissaries to the edges of the known world to bring them back. Exploring the deep and fascinating history of the written word, from the oral tradition to scrolls to codices, internationally bestselling auth...
Network Diplomacy
The current monograph is the result of many years of work by the author in the field of the understudied concept of network diplomacy and the possibilities of using it in resolving sharp conflicts in order to facilitate their more effective resolution, as well as the possibilities of using the elements of network diplomacy in peaceful spheres of world politics, business and private sector. The main part of the book consists of case-studies that are dedicated to the possible use of network diplomacy in "problem" zones (the Libyan crisis, the conflict in Syria, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh), as well as in areas of peaceful coexistence (international sport, culture and humanitarian ties, twin cities, cross years etc). Some chapters are particularly dedicated to Russia’s possible involvement in network solutions to the conflicts. This study will offer insights into how Russian diplomats are hoping to build a new peace today.
Acción política y cultural 1945-1975. Italia y España entre el rechazo y la fascinación
La aceptación de España por las Naciones Unidas se convertía a principios de los años cincuenta del siglo XX en un rompecabezas para los países occidentales. El margen entre el rechazo ideológico a un régimen antidemocrático, por un lado, y por otro los intereses nacionales y la construcción de un sistema de seguridad occidental se estrechaba a menudo de manera considerable. En la búsqueda de normalización de la política exterior española entrará de lleno Italia. ¿Qué papel juegan las relaciones culturales y las diplomático-culturales entre Roma y Madrid desde 1945 hasta 1975 en el marco de las relaciones exteriores de España con Occidente? Atendiendo a algunos espacios pri...
Treinta años de políticas culturales en España
Desde la recuperación de la democracia, las políticas culturales se han convertido en España en un elemento clave en la configuración de los agentes del sistema político, en el desarrollo territorial, en la generación de nuevas prácticas de ocio y consumo y en la construcción de identidades colectivas. Estos estudios analizan el núcleo de la política cultural (sectores, industrias e instituciones culturales), pero atendiendo a sus diferentes dimensiones, la diversidad de agentes que participan en ella y los diferentes sectores de intervención (como el patrimonio, los museos, los equipamientos, el turismo, las fiestas, los festivales o el turismo). Finalmente, abordan la influencia del marco político e institucional, los factores identitarios y el contexto internacional como factores que condicionan la política cultural y explican su evolución.
The Rest Is Silence
The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino)—an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic’s friends, relatives, and attendants. The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso—Latin America’s most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino dubbed “the most beautiful stories in the world”—The Rest Is Silence presents the reader with the kaleidoscopic portrait of a provincial Mexican literary critic, one Eduardo Torres, a sort of Don Quix...
Wolfskin
Sofía is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sofía flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the southern coast of Spain, where she spent summers as a girl. Her younger sister, with whom she has a close but uneasy relationship, joins her. Living together again, the sisters face their present as well as their childhood and tangled past. A novel from one of Spain's most remarkable authors, Wolfskin is an intimate meditation on ambivalence and motherhood, eroticism and disappointment, family violence and failure, and ultimately, the possibility—or impossibility—of living with those you love.'Lara Moreno writes with the austerity of a watchmaker: she gives you the impression that her prose reaches the reader after a thousand polishes, where the functionality of each word has been meticulously analyzed.' – Care Santos, El Cultural'Lara Moreno's prose disquiets the reader, not only for the strangeness of reality she describes, but through ellipsis, the gaps and the holes that complete the discourse.' – Sònia Hernández, La Vanguardia
