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A comprehensive exploration of the several subaltern types and social groups that were placed at the margins of national narratives in Spain during the nineteenth century. Una mirada profunda a los diversos tipos y grupos sociales que fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional en la España decimonónica.
This book commemorates the bicentenary of the landmark Spanish Constitution of 1812. Drafted by Spanish and colonial Spanish American liberals (and non-liberals) holed up in Cadiz as Napoleon’s troops occupied the surrounding hills, this war-time Constitution set out radically to redefine ‘the Spanish nation’ for a new age. In the event, it divided Spaniards and threw into sharp relief the question of Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. Cadiz 1812 is a defining moment in the modern history of the Spanish-speaking world. Bringing together specialists in the history, politics and culture of Spain and Latin America (the Cadiz text was a cultural and ethnic document as much as a...
In the eighteenth century Genoese merchants thrived in the changing Atlantic market. Their trade and migration are explored here.
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La copla flamenca encierra una gran riqueza literaria que ha despertado la admiración de escritores y folcloristas, que ven en ella una prueba más de la imaginación y creatividad del pueblo. Los escritores encuentran en las letras flamencas una poesía elemental y profunda, alejada de retóricas superficiales e innecesarias;
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Bajo este título se recogen las colaboraciones presentadas en el décimotercer Encuentro de la Ilustración al Romanticismo (1750-1850).
Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us. This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.