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Transatlantic Battles
How did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke. Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Centennial Fever
Commemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzón, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation, studies the milestones that defined transnational dimensions of celebration at the beginning of the 20th century including the Peninsular War, the first Spanish Constitution, the independence of Latin American States, the “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean and the death of Miguel de Cervantes and the publication of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Through these truly global events, a cultural community is created, called “Hispanoamerica” or “La Raza”, on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.
Flammable Cities
In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study of urban conflagration, shows how fire has shaped cities throughout the modern world, from Europe to the imperial colonies, major trade entrepôts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day megacities as Lagos and Jakarta. Urban fire may hinder commerce or even spur it; it may break down or reinforce barriers of race, class, and ethnicity; it may serve as a pretext for state violence or provide an opportunity for displays of state benevolence. As this volume demonstrates, the many and varied attempts to master, marginalize, or manipulate fire can turn a natural and human hazard into a highly useful social and political tool.
La azarosa y difícil aventura de migrar
Este libro analiza la inmigración española a Chile, aportando antecedentes inéditos como los frustrados intentos de colonización española en el sur, la relación que existe entre la urbanización y la inmigración española a inicios del siglo XX y las casas de préstamos como una forma de inserción laboral de los españoles, entre otros aspectos. Muestra aspectos no siempre revelados en las investigaciones relativas a migraciones, como la descripción de las situaciones conflictivas, frustraciones, peligros, fracasos y adversidades que muchos inmigrantes tuvieron que vivir en Chile.
Valparaíso
Este libro reúne perspectivas históricas desde diferentes disciplinas de las ciencias sociales sobre temas referidos a la historia de Valparaíso. Los diversos estudios que aquí se compilan se refieren al progreso y conflictos que han caracterizado en su desarrollo la historia de la ciudad. Efectivamente, junto al avance tecnológico protagónico que ha tenido el principal puerto del país podemos también advertir una serie de problemas que han afectado fuertemente a la población, especialmente la más desposeída. De allí que podremos conocer los efectos de las crisis económicas, huelgas y epidemias que han acompañado el significativo desarrollo urbano que tuvo Valparaíso a través de los años estudiados. Esta obra constituye un aporte para una mejor comprensión de la evolución histórica que ha tenido la ciudad desde el siglo pasado hasta el presente, acentuando, especialmente, aspectos vinculados a su desarrollo material como también aquellos relacionados con los diversos problemas de una ciudad integrada a un proceso de cambios, propio de las ciudades puerto, cuya dinámica era asincrónica con la advertida en el resto del país.
Inmigración internacional en Chile
A través de once artículos de historiadores, sociologos y antropologos, se analizan diversos temas relacionados con los movimientos migratorios en Chile desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Se trata de enfoques generales como también de aspectos particulares de algunas colectividades, pero que apuntan a situaciones propias de todos los movimientos migratorios. El recorrido, a través del tiempo, revela que los problemas no son nuevos y ayudan a comprender la necesidad de contar con políticas públicas oportunas, y adecuadas a las circunstancias, en un contexto mundial de creciente globalización e internacionalización
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura n.º 17
A Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, fundada em 2001, é uma revista de periodicidade anual, cujos artigos são sujeitos a avaliação prévia por parte de uma comissão de arbitragem externa. Publica textos de natureza histórica (desde a Antiguidade à Época Contemporânea), noticiário de atividades científicas e recensões críticas de livros. Aceita artigos de investigadores integrados e de colaboradores do Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura da FCT, bem como de quaisquer outros historiadores externos à instituição, estimulando especialmente a participação de todos aqueles que, de qualquer modo, mantêm colaboração ou desenvolvem atividades em rede com o ...
