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Book En proceso

Download or read book En proceso written by Fernando Márquez Cecilia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fin de siglo

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  • Author : Joaquín Mauricio Chávez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Fin de siglo written by Joaquín Mauricio Chávez and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jos    Pepe  Mujica

Download or read book Jos Pepe Mujica written by Stephen Gregory and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalisation and anti-climate change all fuelled by a libertarian socialist concept of freedom. This Sancho Panza-like figure was not only one of the few presidents of developing countries not to have somehow got personally rich while in government, but was known to live modestly as a practicing farmer and gave away two-thirds of his salary to his left-wing political organisation and to social housing projects. Even more bizarre was the fact that he had become president of the country whose government he had tried to overthrow forty years earlier in a revolutionary guerrilla war, an exploit for which he spent over a decade in military jails after being shot, severely wounded and tortured. This book is an introduction to the politics and philosophy of an unrepentant permanent militant whose evolution took him from defeated guerrilla warrior to successful presidential candidate without inconsistencies or betrayals, whatever his adversaries from right and left may claim. The study sets Mujica not only in his Uruguayan and Latin American context but also within an International Left that is coming out of mourning for the loss of so-called existing socialism as they search for solutions to lessen the damage done by rampant neoliberal economics and to find creative alternatives. Stephen Gregory's polemic is essential reading for all those interested in discovering Uruguay's unique position in a Latin America where the political right is in decline and leftist governments are moving to the middle ground.

Book Diez d  as de un fin de siglo

Download or read book Diez d as de un fin de siglo written by Emilia Macaya and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canon and the Archive

Download or read book The Canon and the Archive written by Wadda C. Ríos-Font and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ríos-Font re-reads nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish texts and authors that have tested the boundary between high and low, repositioning them within Spanish critical tradition. Through these self-reflexive readings, the book explores how the definition of literature has changed in more than two centuries of modernity in Spain, and the institutional and cultural negotiations behind this change."--Jacket.

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  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9587657950
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Noticias de fin de siglo

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  • Author : Krystyna Libura
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789701888872
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Noticias de fin de siglo written by Krystyna Libura and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Literature  Cosmopolitanism  Globality

Download or read book World Literature Cosmopolitanism Globality written by Gesine Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Book The Foundations of Civil War

Download or read book The Foundations of Civil War written by Francisco J. Romero Salvado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass social protest and political mobilization, incumbent governing elites struggled to find a valid formula of social containment in the dawning of mass politics which also saw the spread of the radical new doctrines of Bolshevism and Fascism. Above all, this book examines Spain’s "crisis of modernization," a process marked by complex social and political realignments through which the nature of civil society was profoundly altered. It resulted in an unprecedented spiral of violence and a polarization that firstly led to an authoritarian formula of social control in 1923, and ultimately to the outbreak of civil war in 1936.

Book Spain s 1898 Crisis

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  • Author : Joseph Harrison
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2000-08-12
  • ISBN : 9780719058622
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Spain s 1898 Crisis written by Joseph Harrison and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the significance of probably the most famous year in modern Spanish culture - 1898, which marked her defeat in the Spanish American War. The editors have brought together 21 essays by international specialists in the field.

Book Diccionario esencial del fin de siglo

Download or read book Diccionario esencial del fin de siglo written by Luis Antonio de Villena and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este Diccionario esencial del Fin de Siglo presenta, en un ameno e instructivo recorrido por sus palabras clave, la personal visión de Luis Antonio de Villena sobre ese periodo bullente y decisivo en tantas cosas -no sólo en Arte o literatura-, que se sitúa en un punto crítico de la Historia moderna: entre el final del Romanticismo (siglo XIX) y el comienzo de la modernidad (siglo XX); entre 1867, muerte de Baudelaire, y 1916, muerte de Darío, propone el autor. Un eslabón precioso, pues, para entender nuestro mundo (y también el particular mundo estético y personal de Luis Antonio de Villena, que tantas veces ha sobrevolado, y se ha sumergido, en aquella época, «bella época»). Sobre aquel tránsito crucial, sobre aquel Rubicón, nos dice Villena en el prólogo que «constituye un periodo cultural coherente y problemático en todo el mundo occidental, que, aunque vario y disperso, conforma un todo, una entidad indisociable, el tiempo de una ruptura preñada de las características base de la crisis de fin de siglo (...) que se corresponde con un clima espiritual colectivo -inquieto, zozobrante, perturbador- y también a una agónica, pero renovadora concepción o visión del mundo. El diccionario que sigue trata de explicar y recoger los términos fundamentales que configuran, caracterizan y marcan esta crisis del fin de siglo». Así, el Diccionario se abre con la voz (o concepto o idea) «Abulia» y se cierra con la de «Spleen» en un variopinto abanico de entradas o temas tales como «Bohemia», «Esteticismo», «Drogas». «Mala Vida» o «Prerrafaelismo».

Book Latin American Guerrilla Movements

Download or read book Latin American Guerrilla Movements written by Dirk Kruijt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla history of Latin America from the late 1950s to the present. It brings together academics and those directly involved in aspects of the guerrilla movement, to understand each country’s experience with guerrilla warfare and revolutionary activism. The book is divided in four thematic parts after two opening chapters that analyze the tradition of military involvement in Latin American politics and the parallel tradition of insurgency and coup effort against dictatorship. The first two parts examine active guerrilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s with case studies including Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Part 3 is dedicated to the Central American Civil Wars of the 1980s and 1990s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Part 4 examines specific guerrilla movements which require special attention. Chapters include Colombia’s complicated guerrilla scenery; the rivalling Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrillas in Peru; small guerrilla movements in Mexico which were never completely documented; and transnational guerrilla operations in the Southern Cone. The concluding chapter presents a balance of the entire Latin American guerrilla at present. Superbly accessible, while retaining the complexity of Latin American politics, Latin American Guerrilla Movements represents the best historical account of revolutionary movements in the region, which students will find of great use owing to its coverage and insights.

Book Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective

Download or read book Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective written by Ellen Hillbom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History teaches us that agricultural growth and development is necessary for achieving overall better living conditions in all societies. Although this process may seem homogenous when looked at from the outside, it is full of diversity within. This book captures this diversity by presenting eleven independent case studies ranging over time and space. By comparing outcomes, attempts are made to draw general conclusion and lessons about the agricultural transformation process.

Book The Bolivian Revolution and the United States  1952 to the Present

Download or read book The Bolivian Revolution and the United States 1952 to the Present written by James F. Siekmeier and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of United States-Bolivian in the post-World War II era. Explores attempts by Bolivian revolutionary leaders to both secure United States assistance and to obtain time and space to develop their policies and plans"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle

Download or read book The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle written by Ignacio Corona and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crónica, or chronicle, which crosses the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, literature and journalism, is a highly polemical and widely read form of writing in Mexico and throughout Latin America, where it plays an influential cultural, social, and historical role. For the first time, this book addresses the theory and practice of the chronicle in twentieth-century Mexico. Contributions by Mexican writers such as Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska and essays on a wide range of texts and authors provide diverse perspectives on the chronicle as a literary genre and as a cultural and social practice.

Book Inventing the Recording

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  • Author : Eva Moreda Rodríguez
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0197552064
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Inventing the Recording written by Eva Moreda Rodríguez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era. The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights, who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the 'traveling phonographs' and salones fonográficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paraded around Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, small businesses that sold imported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.