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Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936
Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings. The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the discourses, images and representations of the Basque landscape; the second examines landscape practices through tourism, hiking and mountaineering. Focusing on the Basque case but establishing numerous connections with comparable phenomena in Western Europe, the...
Kulturelle Souveränität
Kulturelle Souveränität – ist das nicht ein Widerspruch? Lassen sich das flüchtige und prozesshafte Verständnis von Kultur und der häufig monolithisch verstandene Begriff der Souveränität überhaupt sinnvoll zueinander in Bezug setzen? In ihren Beiträgen zu Nation, Religion und Kultur argumentieren die Autorinnen und Autoren zugunsten eines neuen Instruments für die historische Analyse von Souveränitätspraktiken jenseits des Staates. Kulturelle Souveränität erschließt gesellschaftliches und politisches Handeln aus Sicht der jeweiligen Akteure und entwickelt so einen kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugang zu einem zentralen Konzept europäischer Geschichte.
Estudios sobre nacionalismo y nación en la España contemporánea
Los estudios dedicados al análisis del nacionalismo y la nación en la España contemporánea, y especialmente a partir de inicios de la década de los noventa, se caracterizan por la paradoja de una aparente abundancia, mientras que aspectos decisivos siguen sin ser explorados. La importancia que en la esfera pública española han cobrado los debates identitarios no puede ocultar, sin embargo, los vacíos historiográficos que siguen afectando a nuestro conocimiento. El presente volumen aporta nueve estudios que abarcan desde principios del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días, y giran, desde una perspectiva renovadora, en torno a tres ejes temáticos: las culturas políticas y los discursos nacionalistas, los imaginarios nacionales en literatura, cine y televisión, y los debates historiográficos.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Killing the Water
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Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World
Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of survey and inventory, rescue and archaeology, conservation and protection have until now been studied largely on the basis of individual countries and their administrative and legislative structures. Now, by virtue of its broad geographical coverage, this volume provides many rights and guidelines not hitherto brought into focus: the history and philosophy of archaeological heritage management, case studies (regional, national and specialised), and the training and qualification of archaeologists for heritage management. This book is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners concerned with archaeological heritage management, public administration and the legal community whose work involves archaeological issues.
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
El siglo XX. Historiografía e historia
Nuestro pasado inmediato, ese siglo XX de múltiples rostros, es el centro de atención de los estudios publicados en este volumen. No se puede dudar de la trascendencia y proyección de un siglo que ha sido el de los totalitarismos y de los procesos masivos de exterminio, pero también el de las dinámicas democratizadoras y la emergencia y visibilidad de nuevos protagonistas sociales. Los desafíos a los que los ciudadanos de esta centuria nos hemos enfrentado han sido tantos y tan complejos que la reflexión académica no ha permanecido al margen de su análisis. Historia e historiografía se entrecruzan así en esta contribución, para, de este modo, conocer mejor y en sus diversas dimensiones los problemas y los retos de la contemporaneidad.
