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The beginning of the eighteenth century opened Spain to an influx of people, books and ideas and gave the country its own brief age of Enlightenment. At this time of momentous change, the three authors represented in this volume contributed to the Europe-wide debate over the nature of women and their position in society. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo was an admired scholar and a prolific author. One of his most controversial essays was Defence of Women, which argued that women were men's intellectual equals. This sparked a pamphlet war that continued for twenty-five years. Josefa Amar y Borbón was a writer and translator who submitted her own spirited argument, the Defence of the Talents of Women...
Desarrollo regional, medio ambiente y cultura es el primer volumen de la edición conmemorativa del xxx aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Regionales – INESER. En él se explora el concepto multidimensional y dinámico de desarrollo sustentable a través del análisis del panorama actual de Jalisco. La propuesta de los autores es utilizar como herramienta principal la planeación estratégica que conjunte la equidad, la competitividad y la sostenibilidad. Los capítulos que componen este volumen aportan al estudio de la competitividad económica y las finanzas públicas, la industria electrónica en Jalisco, las empresas japonesas, la crisis laboral, la relación entre el estrés hídrico y las zonas urbanas en crecimiento, y la situación actual de los pueblos tradicionales ante el avance de la urbe. Los trabajos presentados contribuyen sin duda al avance de la investigación sobre los cambios urbano-regionales experimentados en la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco y el occidente del país.
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of commu...
Un relato de Nicaragua en sus primeros 32 años de vida independiente, y un esbozo familiar de los hombres que forjaron y fueron partícipes en esos eventos.