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China
En muy corto espacio de tiempo se ha suscitado en todo el mundo un extraordinario interés por China. En principio, las razones de este interés son, sobre todo, de tipo económico. Casi de repente, China ofrece al capitalismo mundial dos ventajas importantes: el lugar adecuado para manufacturar sus productos a unos precios impensables en occidente y un mercado extraordinariamente amplio. Y junto a este fenómeno, se produce otro: una fuerte emigración de la población china. Hoy, los chinos y lo chino están presentes en nuestras vidas. Lo evidencian su presencia en nuestras ciudades, sus negocios y sus productos que invaden nuestros mercados. China ha vuelto al mundo tras casi dos siglos de humillación con la desconfianza de occidente y desconfiando de occidente; pero ¿qué sabemos del gigante asiático? ¿Cuántos recuerdan que en 1606, en Manila, que era española, convivían con los españoles 20.000 chinos? o que el primer comercio oceánico lo estableció España en el siglo XVI con la ruta México-Manila-Acapulco-Veracruz-Sevilla/Cádiz que funcionó durante 250 años... Es momento de retomar aquellas páginas de nuestra historia.
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Apologia and Criticism
This book is the first modern overview of the history of historiography in Spain. It covers sources from Juan de Mariana's History of Spain, written at the end of the sixteenth century, up to current historical writings and their context. The main objective of the book is to shed light on the continuities and breaks in the ways that Spanish historians represented ideas of Spain. The concept of historiography used is wide enough to span not only academic works and institutions but also public uses of history, including the history taught in schools. The methodology employed by the author combines the tradition of studies of national identity with those of historiography. One of the key themes in the book is the role of the historical profession in Spain and its influence on national discourse from the nineteenth century onwards.
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture attempts a concise approach to the question of postmodernity in Spain since the advent of democracy. The study presents Spain as one of the most postmodern of all European nations and argues that exclusive social and cultural experiences such as the movida, the desencanto, political pasotismo, immigration, globalization, and terrorism are not only patently Spanish but also that in their totality, they constitute a powerful postmodern current in Spain.
Witness to the Age of Revolution
"This stunning graphic history tells the story of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, a descendant of the last Inca rulers. Juan Bautista paid a high price for participating in his half-brother's massive rebellion that stretched across Peru from 1780 to 1783. His "odyssey" as he called it took him in chains from Cusco to Lima to Rio de Janeiro to Cádiz and to Ceuta, the African presidio where he spent over thirty years"--
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century
This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of tension, conflict and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant in other spheres. Throughout the eighteenth century, Spain and Great Britain passed through phases of open warfare, armed peace and deep suspicion. The British capture of Gibraltar and Menorca dealt a severe blow to the newly established Bourbon dynasty in Spain. Even in times of war, however, not all communication channels were closed, with numerous formal and informal contacts being made despite the volatile political climate and enmi...
Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Examines the work of six novelists of the Generation X group of writers in Spain including Jose Angel Manas, Ray Loriga, Gabriela Bustelo, Ismael Grasa, Belen Gopegui, and Antonio Orejudo Utrilla.
Introducción a la historia de España
Un país es su historia y este libro resulta de una ayuda inestimable para conocerla. Por sus páginas desfilan romanos y cristianos, árabes e iberos, austrias y borbones... Nos topamos con invasiones, guerras y revoluciones, pero también con fecundas etapas de hegemonía, paz y prosperidad. Todo un recorrido desde las primeras culturas asentadas en la península ibérica hasta su desembocadura en el franquismo y la actual Democracia. Un camino lleno de aciertos y fracasos, de momentos de gloria y clamorosos desatinos. Un admirable dominio del arte de la síntesis, un estilo ameno y directo y la reivindicación de la realidad histórica de España, dan razón de la notoriedad de estas páginas que atienden a la pluralidad de un país. En definitiva, una invitación para conocer la particular idiosincrasia de España dirigida a un público amplio que combina el rigor en la exposición y la amenidad, y que aporta todas las claves de un denso legado.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
