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Estudios de geografía histórica e historia de la geografía
Este libro es un homenaje al Profesor Francisco Quirós Linares con motivo de su jubilación como Catedrático de la Universidad de Oviedo. Su edición es una iniciativa del Departamento de Geografía a la que se han sumado los Departamentos de Historia e Historia del Arte, el Decanato de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia y la propia Universidad de Oviedo. Recoge una selección de trabajos del profesor Quirós, que corresponden a distintas épocas (el más antiguo fue publicado por primera vez en 1960 y el último en 2004), y versan sobre una temática geográfica variada, constituyendo por ambas razones una muestra significativa de su labor investigadora que ya ha alcanzado el medio siglo de andadura
What's in a Name?
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
Mobile Narratives
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share ...
Living Surfaces
An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective. What if every vista, every island—indeed, every geographical feature on Earth—could be viewed as an art object? In Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. Living Surfaces features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene. With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Living Surfaces is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.
An Historical Essay on Modern Spain
"More political than cultural in its emphasis, this enormously detailed, scholarly yet thoroughly readable book about modern Spain under Franco should fascinate any reader curious to know what changes have been wrought in that country in the past 30 years. Professor Herr (UCLA and Berkeley) has researched painstakingly and drawn a clear, authentic and meaningful portrait of Spain today as it is rapidly being transformed from an agrarian society to one now predominantly industrial."--Publishers Weekly "Professor Herr is also seeking the origins of modern Spain; his history is Aristotelian in that the end dominates the process. He seeks these origins in the later eighteenth century when the tr...
L'Espagne, puissance minière
L'Espagne du XIXe siècle a été le premier exportateur mondial de matières minérales non énergétiques. Le mercure d'Almadén, le plomb de Carthagène, Linares ou Sierra Morena, les pyrites de Huelva, le minerai de fer basque et le zinc de la côte cantabrique alimentent un mouvement séculaire qui trouve son apogée dans le dernier tiers du siècle, avec de grandes compagnies internationales, telles que Tharsis, Río Tinto, l'Asturienne des Mines ou Peñarroya. Élément fondamental mais souvent méconnu de l'industrialisation européenne, enjeu national, terreau d'illusions individuelles et collectives, la minería espagnole du XIXe siècle appelle plusieurs grilles et échelles de le...
