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The International Hospitality Business
International Hospitality Business: Management and Operations will introduce hospitality managers to the most up-to-date developments in hospitality to prepare you for the rapidly changing world of international hospitality. This book is a compilation of the most current research in global operations. It examines new developments, new management co
Popular Agency and Politicisation in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This book provides an entry point to the most cutting-edge lines of research on popular political mobilisation in Europe. It brings together leading scholars from Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Spain. The chapters explore the connected dimensions of popular participation within different countries and across borders, covering the topics of iconoclasm, popular acclamations, street politics, associations, petitions and electoral agitation. Focusing on the role of disenfranchised citizens and women, this collection broadens the themes of traditional political historical research that has identified political participation with the right to vote and struggles for political inclusion, and brings a wide array of formal and informal political practices to the centre of nineteenth-century European life. A must-read for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students wishing to explore multiple dimensions of the history of political engagement and politicisation.
Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert "the animal’s right to existence," passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action.
Manuel Cortina Arenzana
Este texto analiza la trayectoria y actividad parlamentarias de Manuel Cortina Arenzana entre 1839 y 1856. Fue un carismático líder progresista, ministro de Gobernación durante la Regencia del general Espartero. Destacado miembro de las élites parlamentarias liberales, apostó por la conciliación y el entendimiento entre las diferentes facciones del liberalismo español, sin renunciar a sus principios progresistas. Su actividad parlamentaria, influida por su sólida formación como jurista, contribuyó sustancialmente a asentar principios básicos del Estado liberal.
Política de Estado
Este libro analiza los discursos de la Corona que la reina Isabel II leía ante el Congreso de Diputados al comienzo de cada legislatura durante la Década Moderada. En ese documento los sucesivos gobiernos plasmaban la política que pretendían seguir en los más diversos ámbitos: política exterior, relaciones con la Iglesia, política económica, presupuestos, orden público, relaciones entre la Monarquía y las Cortes, etc. Pocos días después de leído el discurso se formaba una comisión parlamentaria que redactaba un proyecto de contestación al documento leído por la reina. Este texto, que apenas disentía del presentado por el Gobierno, era debatido en profundidad por los diputados en los días sucesivos, llegando a prolongarse su discusión a veces durante varios meses. Por lo tanto, los discursos de la Corona y su debate constituyen un buen campo de observación para comprender las políticas gubernamentales y las diferentes corrientes de opinión que existían entre los parlamentarios, no siempre coincidentes con el Gobierno.
Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance
Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados is an exploration of two fandango dances, recording the circulations of people, imagery, music, and dance across what were once the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Although these dance-musics seem to be mirror images, the unbreachable space between them reflects the political fault-lines along which nineteenth-century musical populism and folkloric nationalism extend into present-day debates about globalization, immigration, neoliberalism, and neofascism. If malagueñas are a fantastic incarnation of Spanishness, caught like a fly in amber by their anachronistic references to a fraught imperial past, noisy and raucous zapateado dances cut toward the future. Inherently marked by European conventions of zapatos (shoes), zapateados are nonetheless shaped by Africanist and Native American footwork traditions. In these Afro-Indigenous mestizajes, not only are European aesthetic values reordered and resignified, but the Catholic catechism which indoctrinated the New World yields to alternate spiritual systems springing out of a culture of resistance to European domination.
Pictorial History of our War with Spain
Reproduction of the original: Pictorial History of our War with Spain by Trumbull White
The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise genres as diverse as Mexican son jarocho, the salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti, and the Andalusian fandangos central to flamenco. From the celebrations of humble folk to the theaters of the European elite, with boisterous castanets, strumming strings, flirtatious sensuality, and dexterous footwork, the fandango became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance, and people of diverse Spanish, Afro-Latin, Gitano, and even Amerindian origins. Once a symbol of Spanish Empire, it came to signify freedom of movement and of expression, given powerful new voice in the twenty-first century by Mexican immigrant communities. What is the full array of the fandango? The superb essays gathered in this collection lay the foundational stone for further exploration.
Gangsterismo
Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before and after the revolution, and the criminal networks known as the Mafia. The result of 18 years’ research at national archives and presidential libraries in Kansas, Maryland, Texas, and Massachusetts, here is the story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba. In the early 1930s, mobster Meyer Lansky sowed the seeds of gangsterismo when he won Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista’s ...
La monarquía tutelada
Este libro analiza el intento de parlamentarización de la monarquía —sometida a un control tutelar por parte de los representantes de la nación— llevado a cabo por los progresistas durante la Regencia del general Espartero (1840-1843) y la política desarrollada para modernizar la economía y la sociedad españolas. Ello supuso impulsar una serie de reformas que solo tuvieron un éxito muy relativo, con lo que el proyecto progresista quedó frustrado en parte. Concurrieron varios motivos. En primer lugar, la insuficiencia fiscal como consecuencia del desfase entre gastos e ingresos, que puso en evidencia la necesidad de una reforma tributaria que no se llevó a cabo. En segundo lugar,...
