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Heads of State and Government
Macmillan published the first edition of this text in 1985. It is a detailed reference to world leaders, monarchs, presidents and their equivalents, executive leaders plus other positions with authority vested in them; heads of ruling communist parties, military junta heads and some leaders with no formal post, but who wield supreme authority. This text is a reference to leaders, past and present, of the countries of the world. The second edition updates the first and includes the far reaching political changes which have taken place in Eastern Europe and the emergence of new states. The scope of the book has been broadened to include more international organisations, more regional government leaders, more governments in exile and colonial governors of the twentieth century.
Cánovas del Castillo
A Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828-1897) se le considera todavía hoy el político más importante de la historia de España contemporánea. Varias veces presidente del Gobierno, fue el artífice de la refundación y consolidación de la Monarquía liberal a partir de 1874. Historiador y teórico de la política, Cánovas del Castillo es además un referente fundamental del pensamiento liberal y conservador español. Este volumen es una aproximación biográfica al personaje a partir de las nuevas aportaciones que se han realizado desde el centenario de su fallecimiento, y abarca su ejecutoria como ministro de Isabel II hasta su último y difícil gobierno, con la guerra de Cuba al fondo y que le costaría su asesinato a manos de un anarquista. Monarquía y liberalismo fueron los dos principios por los que Cánovas abogó toda su vida: «Entiendo la Monarquía como la base de la libertad, y como la base entre nosotros de todas las conquistas de la civilización moderna».
Jesuit Superior General Luis Martín García and His Memorias
Fr. Luis Martín García was superior general of the Society of Jesus during one of the most fractious periods in western history, from 1892 to his death in 1906. Fortunately for both the church and his order, he was endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and spirit. He was also troubled with personal challenges that he had to face almost entirely on his own. As an aid, he kept a memoir, prodigious in both size and content, to be published posthumously. The memoir appeared in a critical Spanish edition in 1988. In this present book, David Schultenover provides a condensed English version of it along with an interpretation that engages the question, why would a Jesuit superior general leave to posterity such a candid memoir? The subtitle “Showing Up” provides a clue.
Cánovas del Castillo. Juicio que mereció a sus contemporáneos españoles y extranjeros
En 1901, Emilio Cánovas del Castillo publicó una obra conmemorativa sobre la figura de don Antonio Cánovas. En ella, realiza un impresionante despliegue de material diverso: recuerdos de los primeros años del estadista, de sus primeros pasos en la vida política, de sus inquietudes intelectuales y de las últimas conversaciones mantenidas por ambos, especialmente sobre la cuestión cubana. A ello se unen resúmenes del impacto que el magnicidio tuvo en los diarios y revistas de Madrid en 1897 y en los tres primeros aniversarios; en los principales diarios de provincias de España, de toda Europa, así como de la América Española. Ello incluía a los medios no separatistas de Cuba, Puer...
The Spanish Labyrinth
Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1990, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.
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Expansionism
Starting in the early part of the nineteenth century, American administrations expressed a desire to own Cuba. A rationale for adding Cuba to the territory of the United States could be built on Cuba's sugar and tobacco industries, as well as Cuba's mineral deposits. But economics was not the primary motivation. American presidents knew that in the event of war, any nation occupying Cuba would have an advantage over the US military strategies; this fear, coupled with the economic benefit, explains a century of policy decisions. As Frank R. Villafana shows, Cubans were not sitting idle, waiting for outsiders to liberate them from Spanish oppression. A major part of this research is devoted to...
