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Drawing upon empirical findings, archival research, and interviews, Zammit, Spiteri, and Grima fill a major gap in the literature by delivering a study of the development of the Maltese insurance industry.
What does it really mean to reconstruct a city after a natural, biological or man-made disaster? Is the repair and reinstatement of buildings and infrastructure sufficient without the mending of social fabric? The authors of this volume believe that the true measure of success should be societal. After all, a city without people is no city at all. Invisible Reconstruction takes the view that effective disaster mitigation and recovery require interdisciplinary tactics. Historian Lucia Patrizio Gunning and urbanist Paola Rizzi expand beyond the confines of individual disciplines or disaster studies to bring together academics and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines, comparing stra...
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El presente catálogo describe en detalle el contenido del fondo de música de la Catedral de Santiago de Chile, que preserva más de 1700 partituras manuscritas e impresas de 1770 a 1940, aproximadamente. Se trata de la colección musical más antigua del país y el repertorio que contiene pertenece tanto a compositores que trabajaron en la propia catedral –entre ellos, el catalán José de Campderrós y el peruano José Bernardo Alzedo— como a otros que nunca visitaron Chile. Entre estos últimos, destacan los españoles José de Nebra, Antonio Ripa e Hilarión Eslava, así como figuras que hoy forman parte del canon de la música clásica, como Joseph Haydn y Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...