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Book Blood  Land and Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manuel Perez-Garcia
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2021-04-15
  • ISBN : 1786837129
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Blood Land and Power written by Manuel Perez-Garcia and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.

Book Between Exaltation and Infamy

Download or read book Between Exaltation and Infamy written by Stephen Haliczer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.

Book Constituciones  y ordinaciones de la muy ilustre Congregaci  n y Confradia del glorioso S  Pedro Martyr

Download or read book Constituciones y ordinaciones de la muy ilustre Congregaci n y Confradia del glorioso S Pedro Martyr written by Congregación de San Pedro Martír, Saragossa and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paulo Em  lio Salles Gomes

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  • Author : Maite Conde
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2018-10-15
  • ISBN : 1786833247
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Paulo Em lio Salles Gomes written by Maite Conde and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the first English translations of Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes’ most influential essays on Hollywood, Soviet, European and Brazilian Cinema. Provides readers with theoretical ruminations on the vicissitudes of developing a national film archive, extending our appreciation of national film theory to encompass such practical endeavours. Shows how Brazil’s national film culture was theorised through extensive engagements with international trends thereby broadening our understanding of national cinema.

Book Carmen Mart  n Gaite

Download or read book Carmen Mart n Gaite written by Ester Bautista Botello and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the poetics of Carmen Martín Gaite by viewing the concept of journey as a fundamental principle upon which she bases and elaborates her narrative writing of the 1990s. Five novels published in this period receive critical attention, all of which coincide with the last trips taken by the writer to New York: Caperucita en Manhattan (1990), Nubosidad variable (1992), La reina de las nieves (1994), Lo raro es vivir (1996) and Irse de casa (1998). To the extent that the journey is the essence of the narrative under consideration, the concept is analysed as an aesthetic practice and an attempt to identify a series of actions, which allow us to link the writer’s novels with two areas that have previously received only scant critical scrutiny: geography and the visual dimension. This book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of space in Martín Gaite’s narrative as well as in her collages, drawings and paintings.

Book Catalan Culture

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  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2018-03-28
  • ISBN : 178683202X
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Catalan Culture written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art. From the creation of a new popular theatre in the work of the Valencian playwright Rodolf Sirera, or the conception of landscape, myth and memory in the late work of the novelist Mercè Rodoreda and the urgency of memory and remembrance in the writings of Jordi Coca, the effects of censorship in Catalonia appear to have proved a spur and a challenge to writers. Desiring to occupy illegal spaces, performance groups have manifested both literally and metaphorically the international dimension of Catalan culture in the modern period, posed in the present volume by the instances of La Cubana and Els Joglars, and further evidenced in the cross-fertilization in the work of contemporary Catalan playwrights and filmmakers to foreground issues of national plurality and tensions arising between the periphery (Catalonia) and the centre (Spain and Castile).

Book The Darkening Nation

Download or read book The Darkening Nation written by Ignacio Aguiló and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •It analyses culture during the Argentinian crisis from an interdisciplinary angle (literature, cinema, art and music). •Wide-ranging material: ‘highbrow’ art (Leonel Luna), popular culture (cumbia villera), cultural products that challenge these distinctions (César Aira, Martín Rejtman), and political art (Grupo de Arte Callejero). •The only book in English to focus comprehensively on race and nation in contemporary Argentina from a cultural studies perspective. •A broad understanding of the crisis (late 1990s to mid-2000s), which implies a more comprehensive account of this event. •Due to its analysis of white middle-class identity in Argentina, the book is also a contribution to the emerging field of whiteness studies in Latin America. •The book looks at a trend that would eventually affect the US and Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis: how disaffection caused by neoliberalism triggered in people a concern with national identity which, in many cases, led to a rise of nativism and racism (e.g. Brexit, Trump’s election).

Book Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America

Download or read book Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America written by Patricia Garcia and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It includes introductions to the life and work of female authors who are not very well known in the Anglophone world due to the lack of translations of their works. This critical work with a feminist focus will provide a helpful framework for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and US. A wide-ranging bibliography will be of great assistance to those looking to pursue research on the fantastic or on any of the specific writers and texts. This book is endorsed by the British Academy as part of the project Gender and the Fantastic in Hispanic Studies, and by an established international network, namely the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico, based in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Book Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

Download or read book Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture written by Lloyd Hughes Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.

Book Women s Writing from the Low Countries 1200 1875

Download or read book Women s Writing from the Low Countries 1200 1875 written by Lia van Gemert and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.

Book Constituciones de la ilustre cofradia de la Hermandad de Cavalleros del S  Christo del Socorro de la ciudad de Cartagena  sita en la iglesia mayor della  en la nueve capilla q ue  ha fundado el     Duque de Veragua  y de la Vega

Download or read book Constituciones de la ilustre cofradia de la Hermandad de Cavalleros del S Christo del Socorro de la ciudad de Cartagena sita en la iglesia mayor della en la nueve capilla q ue ha fundado el Duque de Veragua y de la Vega written by Cofradía de la Hermandad de Caballeros del Santísimo Cristo del Socorro (Cartagena) and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La cofrad  a de San Pedro M  rtir de Verona en el distrito inquisitorial de Arag  n

Download or read book La cofrad a de San Pedro M rtir de Verona en el distrito inquisitorial de Arag n written by José Enrique Pasamar Lázaro and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historia de la vida  martirio  culto y milagros del glorioso m  rtir San Pedro de Arbu  s  primer inquisidor del Reino de Aragon

Download or read book Historia de la vida martirio culto y milagros del glorioso m rtir San Pedro de Arbu s primer inquisidor del Reino de Aragon written by Urbano Gascón y Guimbao and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Instituci  n de la Cofrad  a de San Pedro M  rtir  de oficiales  y ministros del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion  por el Summo Pontifice Pio Quinto

Download or read book Instituci n de la Cofrad a de San Pedro M rtir de oficiales y ministros del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion por el Summo Pontifice Pio Quinto written by and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historia de la Vida  Martirio  Culto y Milagros del Glorioso M  rtir San Pedro de Arbu  s  Primer Inquisidor del Reino de Aragon  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Historia de la Vida Martirio Culto y Milagros del Glorioso M rtir San Pedro de Arbu s Primer Inquisidor del Reino de Aragon Classic Reprint written by Urbano Gascón y Guimbao and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historia de la Vida, Martirio, Culto y Milagros del Glorioso Mártir San Pedro de Arbués, Primer Inquisidor del Reino de Aragon Hay cosas que sin decirlas nadie puede comprenderlas, y es deber mio el reve larlas, si es mio tambien el deseo de que se sepan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.