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The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies.
The Braganzas
For two hundred and seventy years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbors and saved the monarchy and government from total destruction by the marauding armies of Napoleon. The Braganzas also ruled the vast empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889, successfully creating a unified nation and preventing the country from splitting into small warring states. In his fascinating reappraisal of the Braganza dynasty, Malyn Newitt traces the rise and fall of one of the world’s most important royal families. He introduces us to a colorful cast of innovators, revolutionaries, villains, heroes, and charlatans, from the absolutist Dom Miguel to the “Soldier King” Dom Pedro I, and recounts in vivid detail the major social, economic, and political events that defined their rule. Featuring an extensive selection of artworks and photographs, Newitt’s book offers a timely look at Britain’s “oldest ally” and the role of monarchy in the early modern European world.
Revolutionary Spring
'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today 'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The Times There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed. Christopher Clark's spectacular new book recreates with verve, wit and insight this extraordinary period. Some rulers gave up at once, others fought bitterly, but everywhere new politicians, beliefs and expectations surged forward. The role of women in society, the end of slavery, the right to work, national independence and the emancipation of the Jews all became live issues. Clark conjures up both this ferment of new ideas and then the increasingly ruthless and effective series of counter-attacks launched by regimes who still turned out to have many cards to play. But even in defeat, exiles spread the ideas of 1848 around the world and - for better and sometimes much worse - a new and very different Europe emerged from the wreckage.
Europese lente
In 1848 stond bijna heel Europa in brand. Politieke onrust verspreidde zich in dat jaar als een lopend vuurtje over het hele continent, en leidde tot grote en permanente veranderingen. De opstandelingen stelden toen vragen die ons vandaag de dag ook bezighouden. Wat gebeurt er als politieke of economische vrijheid botst met sociale rechten? Hoe combineer je representatieve en directe vormen van democratie? Wat is het verband tussen kapitalisme en sociale ongelijkheid? In Europese lente beschrijft Christopher Clark hoe deze opstand van een continent wereldwijd fungeerde als snelkookpan voor politieke bewegingen en nieuwe ideeën. Hij introduceert een fascinerende cast van charismatische figuren, waarmee hij nieuwe inzichten geeft in het revolutiejaar 1848 en huiveringwekkende parallellen blootlegt met onze huidige tijd. Als er in de eenentwintigste eeuw een revolutie op komst is, zo stelt Clark, zou die weleens op die van 1848 kunnen lijken.
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Antiquity and Its Reception
What do we talk about when we talk about antiquity? For the majority of the population, the term immediately transports us to the notion of an ancient age or ancient world (the Parthenon, Athens, and the Coliseum of Rome), which condenses in itself the Greco-Roman world. This reduces antiquity to antiquity that was structurally essential for the construction and emergence of the civilization called occidental.For others, because of their religious backgrounds, antiquity goes back in time and enlarges, in part, its space of action, allowing the emergence of Palestine as a primordial territory.But these two visions (old and supported by a scientific ignorance of the ancient geographies and chronologies) enclose the history in a limited time and space. As if there would never have been a world before that time. As if the civilization that we comfortably call ourselves as inheritors, the so-called "Occidental Civilization" was the first step in the history of man on earth.
Between Development and Underdevelopment
Res. en inglés y francés.
2002
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Guerras civiles
La historia contemporanea de Espana, Francia y otros paises del continente europeo resulta inexplicable sin tener en cuenta los enfrentamientos fratricidas vinculados a fenomenos tan diversos como la revolucion, la contrarrevolucion, la insurreccion, la guerra civil o la resistencia armada frente al invasor foraneo. Aprovechando este rico bagaje de experiencias historicas, y con la mirada atenta a los procesos similares vividos en otros paises europeos y americanos, et presente libro analiza aspectos tan diversos como los problemas anejos a una conceptualizacion cientifica de la guerra civil, la comparacion de los procesos historicos de enfrentamiento civil en Espana y Francia en los siglos XIX y XX, la proyeccion europea del fenomeno guerracivilista, las logicas de la violencia y la formacion cultural de la imagen del enemigo en este tipo de confrontaciones a gran escala.
