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Different Lives
Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume Different Lives offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions a...
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Joaquín Sorolla Portraits 3
Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. In Joaquín Sorolla Portraits 3 1911 -1920 Sorolla paints still paints many important portraits although in the course of preparing for his grand masterpiece "The Vision of Spain", which hangs in the Hispanic Society of America, he did not have the same amount of time available. Sorolla also indulged in painting gardens as relaxation from the gigantic "The Vision of Spain" project. The portraits provide a deep and interesting look into both American and Spanish society in this period. In his early years Sorolla often showed social realism, in his culmination period showed the increasingly wealthy sitters that came to him and in his final period he is a celebrated portraitist of rich Americans and a cultural and political elite in Spain.
The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production
The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico's Metamorphosis 1982-2022 How and why Mexico’s socioeconomic structure was transformed through plutocratic preferences, US corporate strategies, and ideology—all powering transnational processes of neoliberalization—are issues examined in this comprehensive, carefully documented publication covering four crucial decades of metamorphosis. The causes and consequences of the creation of a new, regional power bloc—the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—are extensively examined. Readers will benefit from the many important demystifications presented here, chronicling the asymmetric Mexico-US production system. ...
Entre brejo e sertão
A obra reconstitui as origens e as alianças de famílias do Seridó Potiguar e do Brejo Paraibano setecentistas, com base em fontes documentais e a partir de hipóteses fundamentadas. Trata-se de um estudo genealógico não exaustivo a respeito das famílias Alves de Castro, Azevedo e Melo, Casado de Oliveira, Fernandes Pimenta, Soares de Vasconcelos e Valcácer, que tinham em comum o fato de possuírem, em uma mesma época, uma parte de seus membros residindo no brejo e outra parte habitando o sertão. Além de revisões e acréscimos no texto, esta segunda edição da obra conta com fotografias feitas pelo próprio autor em suas viagens e um índice remissivo.
En buena compañía
"En buena compañía". Estudios en honor de Luciano García Lorenzo reúne los trabajos que le dedican destacados especialistas en literatura e historia, como muestra de amistad y reconocimiento por la labor que ha desarrollado durante décadas a favor de la cultura española. Su actividad se ha centrado no sólo en el mundo académico, sino que lo ha rebasado hasta llegar a la gestión cultural, en la que ha desempeñado importantes cargos como la dirección del Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, entre los años 1997 y 2004.
