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To the End of the Earth
"Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846"--Jacket.
Acompañar al lector
Uno de los principales desafíos de la formación lectora y literaria es el de ayudar al alumnado a progresar en su competencia interpretativa. Este libro se adentra en el tipo de acompañamiento que este objetivo requiere, y lo hace presentando cinco propuestas de lectura guiada en los diferentes niveles de secundaria. Se ofrecen múltiples y variados andamiajes que permitirán un aprendizaje progresivo de aquella «manera de leer» tan particular que supone la lectura literaria.
Lost Histories
Lost places: Atlantis ; The Temple of Solomon ; The library of Alexandria ; Camelot ; El Dorado -- Lost artefacts, works and relics: The Ark of the Covenant ; The lost Dialogues of Aristotle ; The Holy Grail ; Shakespeare's lost plays -- Lost treasure: The treasure of the Dead Sea scrolls ; King John's jewels ; The treasure of the Knights Templar ; Montezuma's hoard ; Captain Kidd's buried treasure ; The Oak Island money pit -- Lost people: The lost army of Cambyses ; Boudicca's grave ; The tomb of Genghis Khan ; The Lost Colony of Roanoke ; Amelia Earhart's last flight -- Lost wrecks: The Persian invasion fleets ; The White Ship ; Treasure galleons of the 1715 plate fleet ; The Franklin expedition.
Knights Templar in Britain
The Knights Templar In Britain examines exactly who became knights, what rituals sustained them, where the power bases were, and how their tentacles spread through the political and economic worlds of Britain before their defeat at the hands of the Inquisition some two hundred years later. Founded in the early twelfth century, the mysterious Knights Templar rose to be the most powerful military order of the Middle Ages. While their campaign in the Middle East and travels are well-known, their huge influence across the British isles remains virtually uncharted. For readers interested in Medieval History.
Refiguring Spain
In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation, gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain's peaceful political transformation, the contributors demonstrate that Spanish cinema and other forms of Spanish media culture created new national stereotypes and strengthened the nation's place in the global market and on the global stage. These essays consider a diverse array of texts, ranging from recent films by Almod...
Disremembering the Dictatorship
Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation h...
Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues
Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenm ller reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexican history. Alburquerque was appointed by Spain's King Philip V at a time when expanding state power was beginning to meet with opposition in colonial Mexico. The Duke and his retainers, though seemingly working for the crown, actually built close alliances with locals to thwart the reform efforts emanating from Spain. Alburquerque collaborated with contraband traders and opposed the secularization...
