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Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era
Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption in four different empires (Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and France) and their possessions in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. It offers a key read for scholars interested in the fields of corruption, colonialism/empire and global history. The chapters ‘Introduction: Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: Towards a Global Perspective’, ‘“Corrupt and rapacious”: Colonial Spanish-American past through the eyes of early nineteenth century contemporaries. A contribution from the history of emotions’, and ‘Colonial Normativity? Corruption in the Dutch-Indonesian Relationship in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’ are Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Discourse and Politics
Drawing on political discourse from a wide rage of settings and perspectives, this book is set to provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular. Topics covered in this book include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse and society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, methods for analysing political discourse, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
Change and Resilience
Change and Resilience offers a view of the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity because Mediterranean islands can contribute in fundamental ways to our understanding not only of earlier colonizations but also later periods. The volume explores specifically the time frame from the fall of the Roman empire to the Medieval period. A first group of papers covers islands and island groups in the Central and Western Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and the Adriatic islands. Together, these five papers highlight several common themes across the region: local or indigenous sites were often reoccupied in Late Antiquity, the rural coun...
Iberian Modalities
Los estudios Ibéricos abarcarían el conocimiento de las diversas culturas de la Península y al estudio de la Civilización Ibérica como un todo.
Mistral in Catalonia
This publication, coordinated by Dr. Antoni Rossell and Dr. Hélène Rufat, presents the figure of Frédéric Mistral, Nobel laureate in Literature (1904), leader in the rehabilitation of the Occitan language and beating heart of relations with the Catalan intellectual world. His rôle was fundamental for the cultural milieu of Catalonia, a fact reflected in the wide range of written testimonials preserved in Catalan institutions. This book provides a taste of the rich documentation available in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer in Vilanova i la Geltrú. The book contains interviews with specialists in the field who provide a multifaceted visi...
Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new...
World Guide to Special Libraries
The World Guide to Special Libraries lists about 35,000 libraries world wide categorized by more than 800 key words - including libraries of departments, institutes, hospitals, schools, companies, administrative bodies, foundations, associations and religious communities. It provides complete details of the libraries and their holdings, and alphabetical indexes of subjects and institutions.
L'endemà
Quin país construirem lendemà de la independència? Les paraules dIsona Passola i les de gairebé 50 professionals destacats de tots els àmbits, catalans i internacionals, dibuixen amb entusiasme les possibilitats dun somni comú: la independència. Què farem quan siguem independents? Quin ha de ser el nostre model de país? Quines dificultats ens trobarem? Una emocionant reflexió col·lectiva, fruit dun moment històric inoblidable, portada a la pantalla gràcies a laportació de més de 8.000 persones i ara, també, convertida en un llibre que conté textos inèdits de lautora sobre aquesta campanya de finançament única i sobre aquest rodatge tan especial, sempre guiat per la passi...
Francesc Armanyà i Ramon Foguet
Sota el paraigua de la Il·lustració a la Tarragona del segle XVIII us presentem un recull de textos al voltant de les figures de Francesc Armanyà, de Ramon Foguet i del seu context històric. L’erudit arquebisbe Francesc Armanyà contribuí econòmicament en les obres del port de Tarragona i en la restauració de l’aqüeducte per fer arribar l’aigua a la ciutat i Ramon Foguet fou un referent dels cercles il·lustrats de la Península gràcies a la seva erudició en el camp de la història, la bibliofília i l’arqueologia.
