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Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was bu...
Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life
This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge as well as practical experiences about the good ageing and the quality of later life around the world, in order to respond to the challenges of an aged population. The handbook is structured in 4 sections covering theoretical and conceptual perspectives, social policy issues and research agenda, methods, measurement instrument-scales and evaluations, and lastly application studies including domains and geographical contexts. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com./div
World Fire
Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.”—Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”—Outside
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set
This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical m...
Distant Guatemala
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Enlightened Absolutism
Each book in this series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter. Each volume, devoted to a central topic or theme, contains specially comisssioned essays from scholars in the relevant field. These provide an assessment of a particular aspect, pointing out areas of development and controversy and indicating where conclusions can be drawn or where further work is necessary, while an editorial introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole. In this text the contributors assess reform and reformers in late 18th century Europe, covering such topics as Catherine the Great, the Danish reformers, the Habsburg Monarchy and events in Spain and Italy.
Inmigración y cuidados de mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid
Se estudia la atención a las personas mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid por parte de los inmigrantes. Tanto el aumento de la prolongación de la vida de las personas mayores como la incorporación de las mujeres al trabajo ha cambiado el modelo de atención familiar por lo parte de los cuidados quedan en manos de personas contratadas que en muchos casos son inmigrantes.
Turistas que llegan para quedarse
Esta monografía es un estudio sociológico sobre las nuevas formas de movilidad residencial que protagonizan los jubilados europeos en el mundo mediterráneo. El trabajo de campo se basa en la aplicación de entrevistas en profundidad y de una encuesta a 872 europeos, en situación de inactividad laboral, alojados en viviendas particulares ubicadas en la provincia de Alicante. El análisis de las relaciones existentes entre la nacionalidad, las estrategias residenciales y los motivos para el traslado desemboca en una clasificación que permite diferenciar entre turistas y distintos tipos de residentes. Se plantean así nuevos caminos para la investigación de los desplazamientos internacionales que, en los límites entre el turismo y la migración, se relacionan más con el consumo de ocio que con las actividades productivas. Raquel Huete, Diplomada en Turismo y Licenciada y Doctora en Sociología, es profesora en el Departamento de Sociología I y en el Instituto Universitario de Investigaciones Turísticas de la Universidad de Alicante.
