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This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest in the world, fills the final gap in the ranks of the major maritime powers. This book is the first comprehensive listing of these ships in English and covers the development of all the naval vessels owned or deployed by Spain during the period of the Bourbon monarchy from 1700 to 1860 (including the period of French ...
This book examines culture and diplomacy in Mexico’s relations with the rest of Latin America during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). Drawing on archival research throughout Latin America, the author demonstrates that Cárdenas’s representation of Mexico as a revolutionary nation contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity and spread the legacy of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 beyond Mexico’s borders. Cárdenas did more than any other president to fulfill the goals of the revolution, incorporating the masses into the political life of the nation and implementing land reform, resource nationalization, and secular public education, and his government promoted the idea that these reforms represented a path to social, political, and economic development for the entire region. Kiddle offers a colorful and detailed account of the way Cardenista diplomacy was received in the rest of Latin America and the influence his policies had throughout the continent.
Cuarta parte de la serie "Del Paisaje, alma del Rincón de Ademuz", obra de investigación histórica sobre la Causa General instruida tras la Guerra Civil (1936-39) en el Rincón de Ademuz. Constituye la forma digital (pdf) de la versión en soporte papel (2011), en el LXXV aniversario de la contienda. Su estructura se organiza en torno a cinco grandes capítulos: Palabras previas, Del Rincón de Ademuz (con artículos relativos a los individuos asesinados durante el periodo histórico), De las villas, aldeas y lugares -con textos relativos a cada uno de los municipios comarcanos-: aquí se estudian los Ayuntamientos, Juntas Gestoras y Comités constituidos durante la revolución, El expolio de las iglesias y ermitas de la zona, con detalle de los daños y las Incautaciones, despojos y detenciones llevadas a cabo en la zona, Entorno comarcal (recoge textos referidos a Libros y Villel, Teruel), y Anexo documental y gráfico. Posee también un rico archivo, con fotografías en blanco y negro, además de numerosas tablas.
A detailed account of the war describes Republican political life during the period and recounts the rise of the Spanish Communist Party
Recursos humanos en investigación y desarrollo.--V.2.
Recoge: Propiedad agraria, grupos sociales y poder local; La estructura social agraria en vísperas de la revolución liberal; Cambio social y política local.
This study challenges the common view that extrajudicial executions in Republican Spain in July 1936 were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'.