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Belchite, Ruines-fantômes de la guerre d'Espagne
Belchite, bourg situé à 40 kilomètres au sud-est de Saragosse, a été un lieu de combats extrêmement violents entre les républicains et les nationalistes pendant la guerre civile espagnole. Y cohabitent désormais deux espaces. Le village détruit, en ruines, et conservé depuis dans son état originel. Et, en contrebas, le nouveau bourg dans lequel la population a été transférée entre 1940 et 1963 et où vit désormais " une petite communauté rurale en sursis ". Vitrine du franquisme, Belchite est le lieu à partir duquel Franco avait annoncé en 1938 la construction d'un monde nouveau sur les débris de l'ancien. Stéphane Michonneau analyse les usages politiques, sociaux et culturels de ces ruines. Les mémoires, les émotions s'entrechoquent dans ce village fantôme où les morts semblent continuer à dialoguer avec les vivants. L'auteur nous invite à parcourir ce site où le passé est à fleur de sol et à comprendre la place de Belchite dans les grands lieux de mémoire de l'Espagne contemporaine.
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal wit...
Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860
Mediterranean states are often thought to have 'democratised' only in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is still contested. Re-imagining Democracy looks back to an earlier era, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and argues it was this era when some modern version of 'democracy' in the region first began. By the 1860s, representative regimes had been established throughout southern Europe, and representation was also the subject of experiment and debate in Ottoman territories. Talk of democracy, its merits and limitations, accompanied much of this experimentation - though there was no agree...
Un récit mémorable
Se promener le long d’une plage ; heurter une bouteille jetée à la mer par un inconnu, il y a près de cinquante ans ; l’ouvrir, piqué par la curiosité ; se croire, au départ, le simple passeur d’une histoire qui n’est pas la sienne ; puis, se laisser gagner par la lecture de cet ouvrage inédit ; mener des recherches pour comprendre : voilà mon histoire. Cette bouteille que je n’ai pas eu le courage de rejeter, ce sont deux gros volumes verts cousus main dont j’apprends fortuitement l’existence par un courrier, le 22 décembre 2001. Retrouvées dans le grenier d’un pasteur du sud-est de la France, ces cinq cents pages écrites en castillan resurgissent après cinquante...
The Camp
The camp is nothing if not diverse: in kind, scope, and particularity; in sociological and juridical configuration; in texture, iconography, and political import. Adjectives of camp specificity embrace a spectrum from extermination and concentration, to detention, migration, deportation, and refugee camps. And while the geographic range covered by contributors is hardly global, it is broad: Chile, Rwanda, Canada, the US, Central Europe, Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, France and Spain. And yet—is to so characterize the camp to run the risk of diffusing what in origin is a concentration into a paratactical series of “identity particularisms”? While The Camp does not seek to antithetical...
The European Experience
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective...
History as a Kind of Writing
In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the “posts”—postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism—which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In History as a Kind of Writing, scholar of French literature and culture Philippe Carrard speaks to this complexity by focusing the lens on the current state of French historiography. Carrard’s work here is expansive—examining the conventions historians draw on to produce their texts and casting light on views put forward by literary theorists, theorists of history, and historians themselves. Ranging from discussions of lengthy dissertations on 1960s social and economic h...
The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
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Contemporary Majority Nationalism
For many years nationalism has been associated with political demands by minority nations that challenge the rights of the central state. However, over the last two decades many works have challenged this perspective, arguing that nationalism - as a political phenomenon - is likely to emerge among both majority and minority nations. In light of a renewed interest in the study of national Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives. In the first section, contributors highlight the paradox of majority nationalism and the ways in which collective identities become national identities. The second section offers in-depth case study analyses of France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, and the United States. This book is an international project led by three members of the Research Group on Plurinational Societies based at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Cultura y conciencia imperial en la España del siglo XIX
Mitjançant una exploració de diverses representacions culturals que es van dur a terme en la segona meitat del segle XIX, aquest volum mostra que en l'imaginari de l'Espanya metropolitana de l'època existia una identitat imperial que ha desaparegut quasi per complet de la historiografia contemporània. L'autora analitza les petjades de l'imperi que es troben en l'Exposició de les Illes Filipines a Madrid (1887) i la commemoració del IV Centenari del Descobriment d'Amèrica (1892), entre altres representacions del repertori simbòlic de l'imaginari nacional, i explora una sèrie de textos, objectes i pràctiques culturals que posen de manifest aquella consciència imperial que, fins a ben entrat el segle XX, estava imbricada en la identitat de la nació malgrat haver patit l'imperi dues importants descolonitzacions en 1824 i en 1898.
