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Documents pertaining to the Compañía de Filipinas
Documents relating to the management of the Compañía de Filipinas, including a letter to Josef Gálvez from the Company directors, and an abstract of the proceedings of the first Junta General. The letter, dated July 27, 1785 in Madrid, from directors Vicente Rodríguez de Rivas, Manuel Francisco de Joaristi, and Gaspar Leal to José de Gálvez, minister of the Indies, acknowledges receipt of Gálvez's order to the president of the Contratación de Cádiz for the transfer of 12 million reales from the funds of the Temporalities of the Indies to commissioners of the Company, Ignacio de Jurbituaga and Domingo Esteban de Olza. Of this amount, 6 million reales will be paid in accordance with G...
The Invention of the Colonial Americas
The story of Seville’s Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s. The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain’s pre-1760 documents about the New World. To fill this new archive, older archives elsewhere in Spain—spaces in which records about American history were stored together with records about European history—were dismembered. The Archive of the Indies thus construct...
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism. Crowley has been long ignored by scholars of religion whilst the stories of magical and sexual practice which circulate about him continue to attract popular interest. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" looks at the man behind the myth - by setting him firmly within the politics of his time - and the development of his ideas through his extensive and extraordinarily varied writings. Crowley was a rationalist, sympathetic to the values of the Enlightenment, but also a romantic and a reactionary. His search for an alternative way to express his religious feelings...
2022
The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa. Among other things, early Futurist publishing and propaganda initiatives by means of manifestos, press releases, and newssheets are examined, as well as Athos Casarini's artistic and political work undertaken in Italy and the USA. Articles in the second part deal with the 30th anniversary of the international Academy of Zaum as well as various conferences, exhibitions and publications celebrating the centenary of Zenitism in Serbia and Croatia. Critical responses to exhibitions, conferences and publications as well as a bibliographical section with information on 139 recent book publications on Futurism conclude the yearbook.
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Reimpresión del original, primera publicación en 1786.
