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Book Blood of Spain

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  • Author : Ronald Fraser
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Blood of Spain written by Ronald Fraser and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Book Impurity of Blood

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  • Author : Joshua Goode
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2009-12
  • ISBN : 9780807136645
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Impurity of Blood written by Joshua Goode and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race -- that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting grounds of many different peoples willingly blended together -- differed from most European conceptions of race in this period and had its roots in earlier views of Spanish racial identity from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Impurity of Blood, Joshua Goode traces the development of racial theories in Spain from 1870 to 1930 in the burgeoning human science of anthropology and in political and social debates, exploring the counterintuitive Spanish proposition that racial mixture rather than racial purity was the bulwark of national strength. Goode begins with a history of ethnic thought in Spain in the medieval and early modern era, and then details the formation of racial thought in Spain's nascent human sciences. He goes on to explore the political, social, and cultural manifestations of racial thought at the dawn of the Franco regime and, finally, discusses its ramifications in Francoist Spain and post--World War II Europe. In the process, he brings together normally segregated historiographies of race in Europe. Goode analyzes the findings of Spanish racial theorists working to forge a Spanish racial identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when race and racial sciences were most in vogue across Europe. Spaniards devised their own racial identities using scientifically substantiated racial ideas and confronted head-on the apparent limitations of Spain's history by considering them as the defining characteristics of la raza española. The task of the Spanish social sciences was to trace the history of racial fusion: to study both the separate elements of the Spanish composition and the factors that had nurtured them. Ultimately, by exploring the development of Spanish racial thought between 1870 and 1930, Goode demonstrates that national identity based on mixture -- the inclusion rather than the exclusion of different peoples -- did not preclude the establishment of finely wrought and politically charged racial hierarchies. Providing a new comprehensive view of racial thought in Spain and its connections to the larger twentieth-century formation of racial thought in the West, Impurity of Blood will enlighten and inform scholars of Spanish and European history, racial theory, historical anthropology, and the history of science.

Book Blood Cinema

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  • Author : Marsha Kinder
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-12-06
  • ISBN : 0520081579
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Blood Cinema written by Marsha Kinder and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-12-06 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most complete, in-depth, sophisticated study of Spanish cinema available in any language."—Marvin D'Lugo, author of The Films of Carlos Saura

Book Blood of Spain

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  • Author : Ronald Fraser
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981-01
  • ISBN : 9780140054804
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Blood of Spain written by Ronald Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood and Faith

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  • Author : Matthew Carr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 1787384357
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Blood and Faith written by Matthew Carr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. It offers a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe - a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.

Book Black Power  White Blood

Download or read book Black Power White Blood written by Lori B. Andrews and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover to much acclaim, this vividly written biographical drama will now be available in a paperback edition and includes a new epilogue by the author. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born (as Larry Michael Armstrong) in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. Spain's life story speaks to the destructive power of racial bias. Even if his mother's husband were willing to accept the boy-which he was not-a mixed-race child inevitably would come to harm in that place and time. At six years old, already the target of name-calling children and threatening adults, he could not attend school with his older brother. Only decades later would he be told why the Armstrongs sent him to live with a black family in Los Angeles. As Johnny came of age, he thought of himself as having been rejected by his white family as well as by his black peers. His erratic, destructive behavior put him on a collision course with the penal system; he was only seventeen when convicted of murder and sent to Soledad. Drawn into the black power movement and the Black Panther Party by a fellow inmate, the charismatic George Jackson, Spain became a dynamic force for uniting prisoners once divided by racial hatred. He committed himself to the cause of prisoners' rights, impressing inmates, prison officials, and politicians with his intelligence and passion. Nevertheless, among the San Quentin Six, only he was convicted of conspiracy after Jackson's failed escape attempt. Lori Andrews, a professor of law, vividly portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Spain's personal transformation is the heart of the book, but Andrews frames it within an indictment of intolerance and injustice that gives this individual's story broad significance. Author note: Lori Andrewsteaches at Chicago-Kent Law School and has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by theNational Law Journal. One of the foremost experts on the policy of genetics and reproduction, she is author ofThe Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology.

Book The Language of Blood

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  • Author : John M. Nieto-Phillips
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780826324245
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Language of Blood written by John M. Nieto-Phillips and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the emergence of Hispano identity among the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Book Blood Crime

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  • Author : Sebastià Alzamora
  • Publisher : Soho Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1616956283
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Blood Crime written by Sebastià Alzamora and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hides in plain sight, trading favours with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer. Can she escape in this city of no happy endings?

Book Blood of Spain

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Blood of Spain written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Missions Begin with Blood

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  • Author : Brandon Bayne
  • Publisher : Fordham University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-26
  • ISBN : 0823294218
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Missions Begin with Blood written by Brandon Bayne and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.

Book The Eve of Spain

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  • Author : Patricia E. Grieve
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2009-04-20
  • ISBN : 0801890365
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Eve of Spain written by Patricia E. Grieve and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman's sexuality.

Book Blood in the Valencian Soil

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  • Author : Caroline Angus Baker
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2012-10-29
  • ISBN : 9781475280982
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Blood in the Valencian Soil written by Caroline Angus Baker and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure is as fragile as glass... Spain, March 1939 - the Spanish Civil War is coming to an end. Five young Republicans in the small town of Cuenca know they are on the losing side of the war. History only recognises the winners, and the group know they could die, all destined to become faceless statistics. They concoct a plan to go to Valencia in search of safety, but not all of these young men and women are going to survive? Seventy years later, bicycle mechanic Luna Montgomery, the granddaughter of a New Zealand nurse who served during the Spanish Civil War, has made Spain her home. A young widow and mother of two little boys, Luna wants to know what became of her Spanish grandfather. He is one of the 'disappeared', one of the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who were murdered and hidden away during and after the war. On a quick trip to Madrid, Luna forms an unlikely friendship with an intelligent and popular bullfighter, Cayetano Beltran, but as Luna presses on to delve into Spain's history for answers, Cayetano struggles with truths he wished he had never found out. In an ever-changing society that respects and upholds family ties, betrayal by the people that Luna and Cayetano hold dear will hurt them more than they could have realised. There are old wounds that have yet to heal underneath Spain's 'pact of forgetting'.

Book Hell and Good Company

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  • Author : Richard Rhodes
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-02-03
  • ISBN : 1451696213
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Hell and Good Company written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it ... The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work ... The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict ... Progress also arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century"--

Book Blood Sport

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  • Author : Timothy J. Mitchell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Blood Sport written by Timothy J. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing how public animal slaughter came to occupy a central place in Spanish culture, this study attempts to unravel the strands of religion, class conflict, nationalism, political corruption and machismo that make bullfighting a microcosm of Spanish society.

Book In the Blood of Our Brothers

Download or read book In the Blood of Our Brothers written by Jesús Sanjurjo and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book details the abolition of the slave trade in Spanish America to the 1860s"--

Book Genealogical Fictions

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  • Author : María Elena Martínez
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0804756481
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Genealogical Fictions written by María Elena Martínez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.

Book The Spanish Republic and Civil War

Download or read book The Spanish Republic and Civil War written by Julián Casanova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.