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The Appeal of Insurance
'The Appeal of Insurance is an excellent collection that reflects a growing interest in insurance research within the social sciences. Clearly written and accessible to a variety of audiences, this is a volume of world-class scholarship.'-Luis Lobo-Guerrero, School of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Keele University In the marketing of its products, the insurance industry has always depended on a considerable dose of moral exhortation and enlightened appeal. The Appeal of Insurance traces the ways in which insurance over the past three centuries, perhaps more than any other business, has grown in concert with a clientele largely of its own making. Faced with a public that ...
Power Struggles
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despi...
Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field. The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.
Franco's Internationalists
Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. This study tells the story of the experts in public health, medicine, and social insurance sent to sell Franco's regime overseas.
Unexpected Prosperity
Unexpected Propserity explains how Spain managed to avoid the middle income trap. With an original interpretation of the economic rise of Spain, Calvo-Gonzalez addresses questions about the political economy of reform, the role of industrial and public policy, and the enduring legacy of political violence and conflict.
Discordant Notes
Based on a study of Madrid (1850-1930), Discordant Notes argues that sound, noise, street music and flamenco have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to fundamental problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime.
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe focuses on the West African migrants’ presence in Europe and the way they negotiate religion and ethnicity in a new context. Special attention is given to the diversity of religious background of the migrants and to exploration of interreligious (especially Christian-Muslim) relations. These dimensions of transnational migration have not been widely researched, yet. After introducing the new African religious diaspora, the situation of the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants – both Christian and Muslim – in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland is analysed. The impact the migrants make on their communities of origin in Africa is also taken into account. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Tilmann Heil, Monika Salzbrunn, José C.M. van Santen, Miriam Schader, Etienne Smith and Gina Gertrud Smith.
Esta es la España de Franco. Los años cincuenta del franquismo (1951-1959)
Este libro aborda las continuidades y los cambios experimentados durante la España de los años cincuenta. Frente a aquellas visiones que hablan de una «década bisagra» entre la posguerra y el «desarrollismo» y en la que «no pasó nada», las contribuciones aquí reunidas dibujan una realidad más compleja. La permanencia de la miseria y los cambios económicos, las estrategias empleadas por los españoles corrientes, la necesidad del régimen de adaptarse a una sociedad en cambio, la continuidad en el control social o la aparición de nuevas formas de disidencia y protesta social son algunos de los aspectos estudiados. La década de 1950 se erige entonces en un periodo clave para entender el devenir de la dictadura y de la propia sociedad española.
La internacional blanca
De 1872 a 1876, España fue el teatro de una guerra civil entre los liberales en el poder y los carlistas. Lejos de estar confinado a la Península Ibérica, el conflicto trascendió las fronteras y el carlismo se benefició de un vasto movimiento de solidaridad europea por parte de católicos y monárquicos. Desde los puertos del Atlántico hasta los senderos de contrabando de los Pirineos, desde los salones de la aristocracia europea hasta las redes de veteranos del papado, un movimiento proteico e informal se organizó. Este libro lo examina desde una perspectiva que cruza los aportes de la microhistoria, la historia desde abajo, la historia transnacional y la historia política.
