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Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake itself, this time into a global, modern capital ready for its turn on the world stage with the Olympics in 2016. But at what price? Armed with sharp prose and a reporter's instinct, Rio-born journalist Juliana Barbassa brings a firsthand glimpse of what's really happening in Rio (the good, the bad, and the maddening). She paints a fascinating picture of this city "on the brink," explaining how Rio will succeed (or fail) based on the choices its leaders and citizens make today. But through it all, she never loses sight of the human face of Rio.
Madrid
The miraculous story of Madrid--how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire. Luke Stegemann tells the surprising story of Madrid's flourishing, and its outsize influence across the world. From Cervantes and Quevedo to Velázquez and Goya, Spain's capital has been home to some of Europe's most influential artists and thinkers. It formed a vital link between Europe and the Americas and became a cauldron of political dissent--not least during the Spanish Civil War, when the city was on the frontline in the fight against fascism. Stegemann places Madrid and its people in global context, showing how the city--fast overtaking Barcelona as a centre of international finance and cultural tourism--has become a melting pot at the heart of Europe and the wider Hispanic world.
Rerouting Galician Studies
This book—aimed at both the general reader and the specialist—offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic poetry and photography, Galician language in the US academic curriculum, the politics of children’s books, film and visual studies, the interrelation of painting and literature, and material culture. Structured around five organizational categories (Frames, Routes, Readings, Teachings, and Visualities), and adopting a pluricentric view of Galicia as an analytical subject of study, the book brings cutting-edge debates in Galician Studies to a broad international readership.
Napoleon’s Cursed War
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition—the guerrillas—and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses—the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died—and restores their role in this barbaric war to its rightful place while overturning the view that this was a straightforward military campaign. This vivid, meticulously researched book offers a distinct and profound vision of “Napoleon’s Vietnam” and shows the reality of the disasters of war: the suffering, discontents and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. With a new Introduction by Tariq Ali.
La España del siglo XX (3 volúmenes)
Una profunda crisis del Estado que hunde sus raíces en el siglo XIX. una Segunda República que se enfrenta a grandes dificultades para poder construir una alternativa de gobierno viable. la Guerra Civil como fracaso y consecuencia lógica –y trágica– de todo el proceso. Tal es el panorama que ofrece el penetrante análisis de Tuñón de Lara en la España del siglo XX, un libro, que desde el momento mismo de su aparición, se convirtió en un clásico de la historiografía española.
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Mascarada
Durante as súas vacacións, fóra da rutina cotiá, estes catro personaxes poñen en práctica unha especie de psicodrama co que intentan aclarar os conflitos que dificultan as súas relacións persoais. Comeza así un xogo do que ninguén sospeita as consecuencias.
Edición da obra literaria de Castelao ; Un ollo de vidro ; Cousas. Retrincos ; Os dous de sempre ; Prosas recuperadas ; Os vellos non deben de Namorarse
Todas as obras de ficción de Castelao aparecen reunidas neste tomo. A edición, a cargo de Manuel Rosales, inclúe numerosas notas a pé de páxina e unha introducción. Ademais de Un ollo de vidro, Cousas, Retrincos, Os dous de sempre e Os vellos non deben de namorarse, inclúense neste volume prosas recuperadas e un apéndice con textos variados.
O embrión
Premio de novela Liceo Rubia Barcia do Concello de Ferrol, 2002. Nesta novela danse cita os mitos e figuras da cultura occidental da man dun narrador omnipresente que vai ensarillando o relato. Novela totalizadora coa que o autor obtivo o Premio Liceo Rubia Barcia Cidade de Ferrol, exprésase nela a obsesión polo tempo circular e a esperanza do eterno retorno.
