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The Search for Mabila describes one of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America, which was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa.
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Commemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzón, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation, studies the milestones that defined transnational dimensions of celebration at the beginning of the 20th century including the Peninsular War, the first Spanish Constitution, the independence of Latin American States, the “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean and the death of Miguel de Cervantes and the publication of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Through these truly global events, a cultural community is created, called “Hispanoamerica” or “La Raza”, on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.
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This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation. The volume’s point of departure is the idea that translations, like all human activities, have a relational basis. Since they depend on places and communities to which they are addressed as well as on the cultural environment which made them possible, they should be understood as situated cultural practices, governed by a particular political ecology. Through the analysis of phenomena that relate translation and ecological culture (such as the development of ecofeminism; the translation of texts on nature; translation...
La exclusión social es un fenómeno muy complejo y relativamente reciente. Tiene que ver con las transformaciones que se están produciendo en la sociedad (globalización, sociedad del conocimiento y de la información, etc.), así como con los procesos mediante los que las personas, o grupos de ellas, no tienen acceso, o sólo un acceso restringido, a determinados derechos considerados como vitales para vivir con un mínimo de bienestar y seguridad, tales como el trabajo estable, la vivienda digna, la atención sanitaria, la educación, etc., que definen lo que se conoce como ciudadanía social.
Recoge las aportaciones en materia de educación física como plataforma para la integración de niños con necesidades educativas especiales.