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"Lazy, Improvident People"
Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before....
Exotic Nation
In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 and the subsequent repression of Islam in Spain, Moorish civilization continued to influence both the reality and the perception of the Christian nation that emerged in place of al-Andalus. In Exotic Nation, Barbara Fuchs explores the paradoxes in the cultural construction of Spain...
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Fiestas de primavera
Finalizando el siglo XIX , la sociedad murciana embriagada por la alegría de vivir de la "Belle époque", brinda un homenaje a la Primavera. Miles de bouquets entrecruzados, impregnaron con su fragancia el espacio dispuesto para un desfile de carrozas recamadas de flor natural. Flores de levante cultivadas en los generosos huertos que ceñían la ciudad. Floricultores, pintores y escultores, aunaron sus esfuerzos para inundar las calles con sus creaciones: arte sobre ruedas por su exquisitez y belleza constituye un auténtico legado de arte efímero. La memoria de aquellas décadas, rescatada en cientos de imágenes, logra hacernos un evocador guiño en nuestra actualidad
