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The Soul of the Nation
Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring "Two Spains." The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.
To Kidnap a Pope
A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio Caiani provides a pioneering account of the tempestuous relationship between the emperor and his most unyielding opponent. Drawing on original findings in the Vatican and other European archives, Caiani uncovers the nature of Catholic resistance against Napoleon’s empire; charts Napoleon’s approach to Papal power; and reveals how the Emperor attempted to subjugate the church to his vision of modernity. Gripping and vivid, this book shows the struggle for supremacy between two great individuals—and sheds new light on the conflict that would shape relations between the Catholic church and the modern state for centuries to come.
Conflict and Collaboration in Medieval Iberia
Studies of conflict in medieval history and related disciplines have recently come to focus on wars, feuds, rebellions, and other violent matters. While those issues are present here, to form a backdrop, this volume brings other forms of conflict in this period to the fore. With these assembled essays on conflict and collaboration in the Iberian Peninsula, it provides an insight into key aspects of the historical experience of the Iberian kingdoms during the Middle Ages. Ranging in focus from the fall of the Visigothic kingdom and the arrival of significant numbers of Berber settlers to the functioning of the Spanish Inquisition right at the end of the Middle Ages, the articles gathered here look both at cross-ethnic and interreligious meetings in hostility or fruitful cohabitation. The book does not, however, forget intra-communal relations, and consideration is given to the mechanisms within religious and ethnic groupings by which conflict was channeled and, occasionally, collaboration could ensue.
The Disinherited
Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country. The Disinherited paints a vivid picture of Spain’s diverse exiles, from Muslims, Jews and Protestants to Liberals, Socialists and Communists, artists, writers and musicians. Kamen describes the ways in which many of these expelled citizens have shaped Spanish culture – or impoverished it by leaving – and enriched their adopted homes through their creative responses to exile and to encounters with new worlds, Picasso, Miró, Dali and Buñuel among them. Henry Kamen’s compelling and sympathetic account tells the story of their incalculable impact on the world.
L'émigration : le retour
Une étude sur l'écriture et la fiction du retour de l'émigré (dont l'Odyssée d'Homère est un paradigme) dans les textes littéraires, et une réflexion sociohistorique sur la durée. Se nourrissant en une approche sociopoétique, ces deux perspectives permettent de dégager des pistes et des outils pour sonder l'hiatus entre les deux rives : l'hier et l'aujourd'hui, l'ici et le là-bas. « Copyright Electre »
A Silent Minority
"This book provides very important evidence that changes in institutional attitudes toward manual language can be traced to broader changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. . . . [It] will prove to be a milestone in the developing discipline of deaf history."--Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race, identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A brilliant career was cut short in 2015 when he died at the age of 48. Rethinking Atlantic Empire takes Schmidt-Nowara’s work as a point of departure, charting scholarly paths that move past reductive national narratives and embrace transnational approaches to the entangled empires of the Atlantic world.
Aguado, o la embriaguez de la fortuna. Un genio de los negocios
El banquero y hombre de negocios Alejandro María Aguado (1784-1842) forjó su increíble biografía en un mundo que transitaba del Antiguo Régimen a la contemporaneidad. Nacido en el seno de una familia de comerciantes sevillanos, eligió el bando josefino durante la guerra de la Independencia y siguió el camino del exilio, como muchos otros afrancesados. Reconstruyó su vida en Francia, donde se convertiría no solo en el banquero oficial del régimen de Fernando VII y en una de las principales fortunas del París de la Restauración, sino también en mecenas de las artes y figura relevante de la sociedad de su tiempo. Combinando prosopografía, historia social y económica con el estudio de redes, Jean-Philippe Luis revela en un ejercicio magistral las complejas relaciones tejidas por Aguado en la Europa posrevolucionaria.
Vicente González Arnao
Vicente González Arnao es uno de los intelectuales más sobresalientes de la primera mitad del XIX, a pesar de que resulta un desconocido para la mayor parte de los historiadores del periodo. Eximio teórico del derecho, pero fundamentalmente un gestor de amplia experiencia y formación, desempeñó importantes cargos en la sociedad madrileña. La coyuntura bélica de 1808 marcó definitivamente su biografía. Parlamentario en Bayona, consejero de José I, ilustre abogado en París, retorna a España en 1831 para formar parte del selecto grupo de reformadores que en los últimos años de Fernando VII sentaron las bases de la reforma política que se puso en ejecución en la década siguiente.
