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L'Angoixa del retratista i altres contes
En aquest llibre es recullen els contes premiats en el II Premi de Narrativa Curta per Internet Tinet (Premis Ciutat de Tarragona 1998) i una selecció de les millors narracions que es van presentar en aquest certamen. Els autors i els contes que es publiquen en aquest recull són: L'angoixa del retratista, d'Antonio Magaña; A l'ombra dels ametllers, de Jesús M. Tibau; Dama callada, de Carles Jardí; Lamentacions al mur del cementiri, de Josep Rafart; Conjuntivitis burocràtica, de Sergi Fernàndez; Hemisferis, de Jordi Sebastià; Perdut el sentit, de Miquel López; Dona en trànsit, de Remei Romanos; Porc agredolç, de Sergi Escolano; La forja, d'Albert Calls; Cotó cent per cent, de Magda Juncosa; L'arc del temps, de Ció Munté; i Nymphéas, de Neus Berbis.
Fire in the Placa
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them. The...
The Crucible of Francoism
The July 1936 coup d'tat against the Spanish Second Republic brought together a diversity of anti-Republican political and social groups under the leadership of rebel Africanista military officers. In the ensuing Civil War this coalition gradually came under the rule of Generalissimo Franco. This volume explores the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible for the Francoist regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and anti-liberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transi...
Els orígens de la tradició política liberal catòlica a Catalunya. Mataró, s. XVIII i XIX
Política i interessos del patriciat mataroní, sobresortint en el camp de l’economia, i amb notable influència sobre el govern de la ciutat. Com a annex, uns quadres dels casals i arbres genealògics de totes aquestes famílies de la burgesia local.
Aurora Bertrana, una dona del segle XX
Aurora Bertrana va ser una figura literària, a vegades polèmica, per la seva vida aventurera, la seva personalitat independent i anticonvencional, la seva reivindicació dels drets de la dona i la publicació dels seus llibres de viatges ja abans de la guerra d’Espanya. Aquest volum recull les comunicacions de l’homenatge que es va fer amb motiu del vint-i-cinquè aniversari de la seva mort a la Universitat de Girona el 1999.
Aurora Bertrana
Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan andSpanish, including: Ariatea (1960), El pomell de les violes (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels jo...
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century examines insurgency and counterinsurgency across the globe in the nineteenth century. The volume includes chapters from distinguished and rising historians from Europe, North and South America and covers irregular wars in Spain, Ireland, France, Latin America, China, USA, Africa, Central Asia and Burma. The authors explore links between insurgencies and nationalism, including learning curves and emulation in counterinsurgency. With a special emphasis on non-Western warfare, this volume includes case studies such as the Katanga and White Lotus rebellions largely unknown to Western readers. The military history of the nineteenth centur...
Nineteenth Century Spain
Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years, offers a fresh perspective on this century, showing how and why elements of backwardness and modernity ran in parallel through Spain. Bounded by the military and imperial crises of 1808 and 1898, this study pays special attention to the experience of war on politics and society, and integrates the latest historical debates in its analysis.
