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The Land Is Mine
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama wrote biblical commentaries that stressed the significance of land. They interpreted Judaism as a tradition whose best expression and ultimate fulfillment took place away from cities and in rural settings. Iberian-Jewish authors rooted their moral teachings in an ethical treatment of the natural world, elucidating ancient agricultural laws and scrutinizing the physical context and built environments of Bible stories. The Land Is Mine asks what inspired this and suggests that the answer lies not in timeless exegetical or theological trends, but in the material realities of late medie...
Chains of Gold
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of migration systems, examining their connections and the crucial role of social networks in migrants’ geographic mobility and adaptation. Combining regional and local perspectives on both sides of the Atlantic, Chains of Gold provides a vivid account of the trajectories of migrant men and women as they moved from rural Portugal to contrasting places of settlement in the Argentine pampas and Patagonia.
Professor Joan Vilà Valentí
El presente volumen recoge un total de 115 artículos, recopilados con motivo del homenaje al Dr. Joan Vilà Valentí, i que se dividen en tres apartados: uno dedicado a glosar la trayectoria académica y científica del Dr. Vilà, otro sobre pensamiento geográfico y el último sobre trabajos de geografía regional.
Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages
Thomas Glick presents a comparative history of the Islamic and Christian areas of Spain in the period between A.D. 711 and 1250 when these areas emerged as distinct political, social, and cultural entities. The author accounts for the social, political, and ethnic structures that developed between the frontiers of Muslim and Christian territories and explores the cross-cultural relationships and the transmission of ideas and techniques, mainly from the Islamic culture to the Christian culture in Spain. Glick argues that science and technology are key indicators of cultural influence. The author has revised this text considerably since the first edition appeared in 1979 to reflect the fruits of the increased exploration of Spanish medieval history spurred by the “historiographical revolution” in Spain over the last two decades.
El gobierno municipal de Granada durante la Guerra de la Independencia. Ayuntamiento borbónico, municipalidad josefina y ayuntamiento liberal
El objeto de este trabajo no es otro que el de exponer cómo se llevó a cabo el tránsito desde las instituciones municipales del Antiguo Régimen a las propugnadas por la Constitución de 1812, incluyendo la organización municipal josefina y el posterior restablecimiento del absolutismo en 1814. Lejos de limitarnos al análisis del marco teórico normativo del régimen municipal, se ha pretendido analizar su aplicación en un escenario concreto: la ciudad de Granada. La complejidad histórica del proceso iniciado a comienzos del siglo XIX requiere la investigación de un Ayuntamiento como el de Granada, que nos permita analizar los cambios institucionales del gobierno municipal en relación con el proceso revolucionario iniciado en 1808.
