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A Most Splendid Company
This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint’s deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540. Through their investigation into thousands of legal cases, financial records, proofs of service, letters, journals, and other primary materials, they provide social and cultural documentation on the backgrounds of hundreds of individuals who made up the Coronado expedition and show that the expedition was the first phase of a three-phase effort to complete the Columbian project: to delineate a westward route to Asia from Spain.
La nación singular
España vive una crisis sin precedentes que ha reducido los problemas de la ciudadanía a cifras y balances que no cuadran. Una crisis que ha enrarecido un ambiente político y mediático en constante ajuste de cuentas, literal y simbólico. A pesar de ello, políticos y personajes públicos de todo signo instan a la ciudadanía a superar «particularismos» para unirse firmemente en defensa de «lo que nos une». Lo que se espera, de hecho, es la adhesión de una ciudadanía cohesionada y dócil a lo que se determina que constituye el «sentido común». La cultura democrática española se sostiene sobre una fantasía de normalidad y consenso que requiere la identificación incuestionable ...
The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage
As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Peninsular Spanish theater. This love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation of Spain's modern national identity, which depended heavily on defining women's place in 19th century society. Women who defied traditional gender roles became a source of anxiety in society and on stage. The adulteress embodied the fear of rebellious women, the growing pains of modernity and the political instability of war and invasion. This book examines the conflicted portrayal of women and the Spanish national identity. Studying the adulteress on stage, the author provides insight into the uneasy tension between progress and tradition in 19th century Spain.
Science, Religion and Nationalism
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of “religion” are seldom challenged. This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of “religion” played in the construction o...
The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain
The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican and the religious orders, and nations such as France, Italy, the Dutch Republic, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. The second part studies the aftermath of the expulsion, the forced migrations, settlement and Diaspora of the Moriscos, comparing their vicissitudes with that of the Jewish conversos. Contributors are Youssef El Alaoui, Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco, Luis Fernando Bernabé Pons, Paulo Broggio, Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra, Antonio Feros, Mercedes García-Arenal, Jorge Gil Herrera,Tijana Krstić, Sakina Missoum, Natalia Muchnik, Stefania Pastore, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, James B. Tueller, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta, Bernard Vincent, and Gerard Wiegers.
Las misiones pedagógicas
“Es natural que queráis saber, antes de empezar, quiénes somos y a qué venimos. No tengáis miedo. No venimos a pediros nada. Al contrario; venimos a daros de balde algunas cosas. Somos una escuela ambulante que quiere ir de pueblo en pueblo. Pero una escuela donde no hay libros de matrícula, donde no hay que aprender con lágrimas, donde no se pondrá a nadie de rodillas, donde no se necesita hacer novillos. Porque el Gobierno de la República, que nos envía, nos ha dicho que vengamos ante todo a las aldeas, a las más pobres, a las más escondidas, a las más abandonadas, y que vengamos a enseñaros algo, algo de lo que no sabéis por estar siempre tan solos y tan lejos de donde otr...
Admiration and Awe
This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.
Treinta años de políticas culturales en España
Desde la recuperación de la democracia, las políticas culturales se han convertido en España en un elemento clave en la configuración de los agentes del sistema político, en el desarrollo territorial, en la generación de nuevas prácticas de ocio y consumo y en la construcción de identidades colectivas. Estos estudios analizan el núcleo de la política cultural (sectores, industrias e instituciones culturales), pero atendiendo a sus diferentes dimensiones, la diversidad de agentes que participan en ella y los diferentes sectores de intervención (como el patrimonio, los museos, los equipamientos, el turismo, las fiestas, los festivales o el turismo). Finalmente, abordan la influencia del marco político e institucional, los factores identitarios y el contexto internacional como factores que condicionan la política cultural y explican su evolución.
Las misiones pedagógicas
“Es natural que queráis saber, antes de empezar, quiénes somos y a qué venimos. No tengáis miedo. No venimos a pediros nada. Al contrario; venimos a daros de balde algunas cosas. Somos una escuela ambulante que quiere ir de pueblo en pueblo. Pero una escuela donde no hay libros de matrícula, donde no hay que aprender con lágrimas, donde no se pondrá a nadie de rodillas, donde no se necesita hacer novillos. Porque el Gobierno de la República, que nos envía, nos ha dicho que vengamos ante todo a las aldeas, a las más pobres, a las más escondidas, a las más abandonadas, y que vengamos a enseñaros algo, algo de lo que no sabéis por estar siempre tan solos y tan lejos de donde otr...
Memory, Transition, and Transnationalism in Iberia
This volume brings together a wide range of innovative research across the diverse field of Iberian Studies. It will be of interest to academic staff and research students, and will also provide a resource for undergraduate projects and for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of the Iberian countries and their relationships with other parts of the world. The collection includes cutting-edge work in the fields of memory politics and historical revisionism, peninsular dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, the Francoist legacy and transition to democracy, and colonial and postcolonial transnational exchanges between Iberia and other continents on a global scale. Within these core themes, pressing topics such as migrations, resistance, memory, exile and trauma, violence, sexuality and feminism, and their literary and artistic representations form the core of the volume. The 16 chapters are written by established and early career researchers from Brazil, India, Ireland, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the USA.
