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A Missionary Nation
A Missionary Nation focuses on Spain’s crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the so-called War of Africa. Fought in Morocco between 1859 and 1860, the campaign involved more than forty-five thousand troops and led to a long-lasting Spanish engagement in North Africa. With popular support, the government backed French invasions of Indochina and Mexico, and many veteran soldiers from the African war were reenlisted in the brutal and protracted conflict following the reannexation of the Dominican Republic in 1861. In addition, expeditions to West Africa built a colonial presence in and around the island of Fernando Po. Few works in English have examined the impact of these nineteent...
Coastal Mass Tourism
The Mediterranean coastal regions of Southern Europe have long been world leaders in mass tourism. This book examines some key questions for tourism development in these areas, with implications for similar regions across the world. The standardised forms of mass tourism are diversifying – with more specialised forms, notably those based on nature, culture and heritage, and those catering for special interests. There is a growing spectrum of modes of tourism, with an emphasis on variety, flexibility and permeability. Both mass tourism and the more diversified forms substantially impact on sustainable development. Policies promoting sustainable development are often of two main types: devel...
OECD Regional Development Studies Land-use Planning Systems in the OECD Country Fact Sheets
This report provides an overview of spatial and land-use planning systems across the OECD. It contains country fact sheets that focus on formal aspects of planning systems, as they are defined by laws and regulations.
The Green Bullet
New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling. 'A study of a dominant force, a true gentleman racer despite his shadowy past' Dan Martin Alejandro Valverde - the 'Green Bullet' - was an international symbol of Spanish cycling for a quarter of a century before his retirement in 2022. Hard-working and supremely talented, he won the Vuelta a España and stood on the podium of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. World champion in 2018, he was also the world's number-one-ranked rider four times. A man of indisputable charisma, he was also a convicted doping cheat. When the Spanis...
Mediterranean Islands and Sustainable Tourism Development
Due to their fragile economies and infrastructures, research on Mediteranean islands reveals a great deal about the impact of tourism. This volume focuses on issues specific to tourism in the Mediterranean, with contributors from the United States, the United Kingdon and continental Europe.
Tourism and Dictatorship
Following WWII, the authoritarian and morally austere dictatorship of General Francisco Franco's Spain became the playground for millions of carefree tourists from Europe's prosperous democracies. This book chronicles how this helped to strengthen Franco's regime and economic and political standing.
Mites i llegendes
Els estudis que s'inclouen en aquest llibre tenen com a objectiu analitzar els mites i les llegendes que en el transcurs del temps la societat ha construït i que li han servit per transmetre creences i una determinada visió del món. Aquest recull pretén donar a conèixer com neixen i evolucionen els mites i les llegendes i com els utilitzen i interpreten tant els escriptors com la societat en general. Aquests estudis tenen un caràcter interdisciplinari perquè apleguen temes d'història, filologia, art, antropologia, cinema, geografia, medicina, psicologia, dret, etc. El tema d'aquesta obra és de plena actualitat, atesa la tendència que hi ha, avui en dia, cap a la mitificació de personatges i de conceptes que provenen dels àmbits més diversos i actuen com a paràmetres en la societat actual.
