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Geographies of Mediterranean Europe
This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent decades. This thematically arranged book takes into account the national differences of the authors, but also highlights the main contributions of Mediterranean geographies on a global scale. It reinforces a perception of common problems and debates in Southern Europe. This book appeals to the institutionalized geographical community of Mediterranean countries but also to a global audience of scholars of geography, territorial and spatial studies, social sciences and history.
Reanimating Regions
Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically, or arguing culturally, historically, and politically with regions, was deemed to be old-fashioned. Yet the region is, and always will be, a central geographical concept, and thinking about regions can tell us a lot about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite taking up an identifiable place within the geographic...
Speaking of Spain
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Spains -- 2. Spaniards -- 3. The Others Within -- 4. The Others Without -- 5. A New Spain, a New Spaniard -- 6. Race and Empire -- 7. From Empire to Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
This book provides significant new insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements using Eugénio dos Santos (1711–1760) as a common reference point. Eugénio dos Santos was a Portuguese architect and city planner who, among other projects, was responsible for the plans to rebuild Lisbon after the earthquake of 1st November 1755. His artistic and technical training, architectural production, aesthetic preferences and some of the books in his private library point to a person who embodied the transition between two moments in Portuguese culture, with their specific characteristics and particular reception of the practices and ideas that circulated among European intellectuals and practitioners. Over the 18 chapters of this volume, several specialists in different disciplinary areas discuss ideas, libraries, printed and handwritten documents, drawings, printing techniques, and architects, philosophers and writers of the 18th century, in order to offer a broad view of a time period closely associated with the construction of modernity.
Atlas histórico eclesiástico
La cartografía es un ejemplo del poder de la imagen. Los mapas impactan en nuestra mente de forma directa y eficaz, hasta el punto de adquirir una aureola de veracidad. Son, por supuesto, un instrumento de transmisión del conocimiento, pero a menudo la precisión tiene una importancia secundaria y lo relevante es la forma, la carga sentimental que vehicula el mapa, el mensaje de autoridad y de ejercicio del poder que transmite. La Iglesia fue un agente relevante en la realización y el consumo de cartografía, como evidencia, por ejemplo, la deslumbrante Galería de los Mapas del Vaticano. En España, la cartografía diocesana generó piezas de gran interés y calidad, algunas de las cuale...
European Regions, 1870 – 2020
This volume explains the national and regional border modifications that took place in Europe from 1870 to 2020. It provides insights that allow us to understand boundary changes for several different levels of territorial organization. The text describes the state formation process related to the regional-administrative structures in each European country, and offers insight into the degree of centralization historically by describing the extent of legislative autonomy at different administrative levels and the competences reserved for each of them. The book sheds light on the complex regional organization of Europe and the difficulties its reform has faced. The main audience will be academics and PhD/Masters students working in a variety of geography fields, and the maps included in each chapter will also be of interest to a broader audience including undergraduate and secondary-school students wishing to better understand the political history of Europe.
L'esguard de la Societat Catalana de Geografia (1935-2020)
L'esguard de la Societat Catalana de Geografia és una mirada a la Geografia des d'aquesta societat filial de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), al llarg de la seva trajectòria (1935-2020). Aquest llibre és el resultat d'un programa de recerca finançat per l'IEC durant tres anys i executat per sis membres de la Societat Catalana de Geografia (SCG), que hi han exercit diverses tasques directives. Hom hi analitza el desenvolupament de la Geografia a Catalunya a través de la pròpia SCG, en el context científic, social i polític dels seus vuitanta-cinc anys. És per això que el repàs de l'activitat desplegada per la Societat es fa tenint en compte la història de l'entitat i la del país, amb la mirada fita en l'evolució de la ciència geogràfica, parant atenció als seus paradigmes i a les metodologies i tècniques emprades. Aquest llibre fa balanç d'anys en els quals ha mancat una major complicitat amb el món universitari i adreça la mirada a un futur en què la SCG vol continuar contribuint a la difusió de la recerca i a garantir la plenitud científica de la llengua catalana.
La II República espanyola
El 1981 la Facultat de Lletres de Tarragona organitzà un col·loqui internacional sobre la II República espanyola. Vint-i-cinc anys després, unes jornades interdisciplinàries al mateix centre van aplegar especialistes en diverses branques de les humanitats i les ciències socials per reflexionar i debatre a l'entorn de la primavera republicana. Aquesta va ser una etapa reeixida en la història d'Espanya, que va maldar per impulsar polítiques reformistes en l'educació, l'exèrcit, l'organització de l'Estat o l'estructura social agrària. És compartit que massa sovint aquesta agenda social ambiciosa ha estat eclipsada en el seu significat i abast pel cop d'estat feixista, que derivà en guerra civil en un context internacional convuls. Aquest llibre fa una mirada polièdrica, plural i interdisciplinària al complex període de la II República (1931-1939) i analitza els usos públics de la història, que esdevenen claus explicatives de la desmemòria republicana en la societat actual.
