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Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review 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 b...
Return to the Center
The redesign and revitalization of traditional urban centers is the cutting edge of contemporary urban planning, as evidenced by the intense public and professional attention to the rebuilding of city cores from Berlin to New York City's “Ground Zero.” Spanish and Latin American cities have never received the recognition they deserve in the urban revitalization debate, yet they offer a very relevant model for this “return to the center.” These cultures have consistently embraced the notion of a city whose identity is grounded in its organic public spaces: plazas, promenades, commercial streets, and parks that invite pedestrian traffic and support a rich civic life. This groundbreakin...
History of Technology Volume 30
This book focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works. If technology transfer from advanced nations to less developed systems always worked, then the whole world would now be rich. That this is not the case is so obvious, we might well expect that the history of the processes, successes and failures of technology transfer across nations would be a very well-established field of enquiry. In fact, the theme is still a developing one, and the present Special Issue centres on the case of Spain as exemplary in many respects. The collected essays focus upon the four major themes of knowl...
Centros de investigación en España. Plan nacional de I+D
Catálogo que pone al día las dos ediciones anteriores (1984 y 1986) donde se ofrecía el listado de Centros de Investigación en España.
Series históricas de capital público en España y su distribución territorial (1900-2005)
La Fundación BBVA y el Ivie publican estimaciones periódicas de las dotaciones de capital en España desde 1995. Continuando con este esfuerzo, el presente volumen ofrece una novedosa panorámica de la actividad inversora del sector público, al presentar por primera vez una visión de muy largo plazo, que amplía el horizonte temporal a 1900 y cubre así más de un siglo de la historia de España. La información elaborada en esta obra -que está disponible para su consulta en el sitio web de la Fundación BBVA- permite analizar la estrategia inversora del sector público en partidas tan importantes para el crecimiento y el bienestar como las infraestructuras, la sanidad o la educación.L...
Malacañan Palace
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Shaky Colonialism
A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.
Centros públicos de investigación en España (1984)
Por primera vez se edita, en forma de catálogo, un listado de todos los Centros de Investigación existentes en España.
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.
