Download or read book His Suitable Bride written by Cathy Williams and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael's Suitable Bride Rafael needs a suitable wife...and Cristina is an ideal candidate: her plain-Jane looks mean she won't stray - and she's a virgin! Cristina is devastated to learn that Rafael's proposal was one of convenience. But whilst their marriage isn't based on love, Rafael intends for it to be authentic in every other respect...The Spaniard's Marriage Bargain Rowan had been Isandro's bride of convenience. Knowing he would never love her as she loved him, her choice was to make her unborn child her priority...But in Isandro's eyes Rowan had done the unforgiveable. However, he couldn't stop her seeing her son - or deny that the passion between them was as intense as ever...Cordero's Forced Bride Alexa Montague's had to call off her sister's wedding and now the groom, Santos, is demanding she take her sister's place! The Montagues have stolen everything - so Santos will have Alexa instead. Santos does not - cannot - love. But his body burns for Alexa. He'll keep her captive in his bed until she's begging to be his...
Download or read book Rafael s Suitable Bride written by Cathy Williams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billionaire Rafael Rocchi always has a woman in his bed, but never in his heart. Now he needs a suitable wife… When he meets Cristina, she is an ideal candidate: her plain-Jane looks mean she won't be tempted to stray—and she's a virgin! Cristina is devastated to learn that Rafael's proposal was one of convenience. But whilst Rafael makes it clear their marriage isn't based on love, he intends for it to be authentic in every other respect…
Download or read book Converso Non Conformism in Early Modern Spain written by Kevin Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spain 1834 1844 a New Society written by Carlos Marichal and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Technology and Globalisation written by David Pretel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation illustrates how expert practices have shaped the political economies of interacting countries, entire regions and the world economy. This title brings together a range of approaches and topics across different regions, transcending nationally-bounded historical narratives. Each chapter deals with a particular topic that places expert networks at the centre of the history of globalisation. The contributors concentrate on central themes including intellectual property rights, technology transfer, tropical science, energy production, large technological projects, technical standards and colonial infrastructures. Many also consider methodological, theoretical and conceptual issues.
Download or read book Pandemic Exposures written by Fassin Didier and published by Hau. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating, indispensable analysis of a watershed moment and its possible aftermath. For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this naive alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences to reflect on the myriad ways SARS-CoV-2 has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. An indispensable volume, Pandemic Exposures provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.
Download or read book The Philippines Past and Present written by Dean Conant Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awakened by the Scarred Italian written by Abby Green and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brooding Italian’s returned… To finally make her his! Two years after their last heartbreaking meeting, Ciro Sant’Angelo bursts back into Lara Templeton’s life with a demand. His former fiancée will fulfill her promise and become his wife! Ciro is not the man Lara remembers—a devastating experience has left him scarred and completely ruthless. Yet their intense fire has never died, and his caress awakens innocent Lara to unimaginable pleasures. Could their convenient marriage be their redemption? Discover this intense tale of romance and redemption
Download or read book Eating Puerto Rico written by Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors--or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared--Ortiz concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change.
Download or read book De Witt Colony of Texas written by Edward A. Lukes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginnings of the counties of Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria.
Download or read book The Masculine Century written by Michael Antony and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the Twentieth Century is behind us . what made it what it was? 200 million human beings killed by war, totalitarianism, and extermination programs. What made the twentieth century the most murderous age in human history, as well as the age that made the greatest advances ever in science and technology, while art and serious music declined into abstraction, non-communication, and grotesque hoaxes-blank canvases, old urinals, cans of excrement, and concertos consisting of four minutes of silence? This book argues that the century was marked by an over-masculinization of the Western mind, leading to autism and psychopathic aggression, and the eclipse of the feminine, expressive, emotional, empathetic side of human nature. Hence the unprecedented culture of total war and genocide, and the totalitarian projects to raze the human past and start again-which Modernism carried out in the arts. Hence also the masculinization of sexual behavior (as romance gave way to pornography, and marriage to promiscuity), the adoption by women of a male work role, the decline of motherhood and family, and the collapse of Western birthrates. This is all traced back to the rise of two aggressive, ultra-masculine ideologies in the nineteenth century, Darwinism and Marxism (which gave birth to Fascism and Feminism.) These ideologies put violence, conflict and aggression at the heart of life, and changed human mentalities. This book examines these developments through the literature and art of the past hundred and fifty years, and discusses their implications for the future of Western Civilization.
Download or read book Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas written by Mina Roces and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of politics, this book shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of nationhood and national identities in Asia and the Americas.
Download or read book An Early Self written by Susanne Zepp and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore, the anonymous tale Lazarillo de Tormes (the first picaresque novel), Montaigne's Essais, and the poetical renditions of the Bible by João Pinto Delgado. Forced to straddle two cultures and religions, these Iberian conversos (Jews who converted to Catholicism) prefigured the subjectivity which would come to characterize modernity. As "New Christians" in an intolerant world, these thinkers worked within the tensions of their historical context to question norms and dogmas. In the past, scholars have focused on the Jewish origins of such major figures in literature and philosophy. Through close readings of these texts, Zepp moves the debate away from the narrow question of the authors' origins to focus on the innovative ways these authors subverted and transcended traditional genres. She interprets the changes that took place in various literary genres and works of the period within the broader historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, demonstrating the extent to which the development of early modern subjective consciousness and its expression in literary works can be explained in part as a universalization of originally Jewish experiences.
Download or read book A History of European Printing written by Colin Clair and published by London ; New York : Academic Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaiming His Wife The Ruthless Marriage Bid Back in Her Husband s Bed The Prodigal Wife Mills Boon By Request written by Elizabeth Power and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruthless Marriage Bid by Elizabeth Power Within weeks of their wedding, Taylor had discovered that she was pregnant and that Jared had a mistress – she lost everything. Now Jared has returned and is ruthlessly claiming that he wants Taylor back! How long can she hold out against his magnetic sensuality?
