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A Life in Shadow
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
Jews in Medieval England
This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.
A Maturing Market
Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal’s urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its social reach far broader than the civic or ecclesiastical elites were ever to be entirely comfortable with. This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them – negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to reconfigure their relationship with their readers.
Culture et mémoire
Une perspective interculturelle et interdisciplinaire, présentant les formes et les modalités de la représentation de la mémoire de différents conflits et violences historiques dans la littérature, le cinéma, les arts plastiques, les médias et des lieux tels que musées ou mémoriaux. Il ressort de ces études des similitudes dans l'interrogation du passé, dans les approches et les formes utilisées.
Réforme ou révolution ?
Héros national des Philippines, José Rizal naquit dans l'île de Luzon, au sein d'une famille aisée. Il mourut fusillé à Manille en 1896, accusé par les Espagnols d'avoir fomenté l'insurrection qui devait conduire à la rupture de 1898 entre les Philippines et l'Espagne. Exécuté comme un révolutionnaire dangereux pour l'intégrité de la nation espagnole, érigé en martyr revendiqué par le Katipunan, mouvement séparatiste philippin, jugé à l'aune de ses deux romans : Noli me tangere et El Filibusterimo, il reste considéré comme le chantre du réformisme et de l'assimilationnisme. Mais qui était vraiment le Rizal qui tomba sous les balles espagnoles ? Ce livre est issu de ce...
La guerre d'Espagne en héritage
Contributions sur les représentations de la guerre civile espagnole dans l'historiographie, la littérature, le cinéma, la presse et l'enseignement depuis la mort de Franco, en Espagne et en Europe.
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's literacy. Together the essays reveal the surprisingly broad range of pedagogical methods and learning experiences undergone by early modern women in Spain and the New World. Focusing on the pedagogical experiences in Spain, New Spain (present-day Mexico), and New Granada (Colombia) of such well-known writers as Saint Teresa of Ávila, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas, as well as of lesser-known noble women and writers, and of nuns in...
Memoire(s) de la ville dans les mondes hispaniques et luso-bresilien
Derives from a congress held at the Univ. of Caen, November, 2003--Vid. back cover.
