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Book Possessing the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stalls
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 9004474102
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Possessing the Land written by Stalls and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessing the Land is the first comprehensive treatment of Christian Aragon's expansion under Alfonso I (1104-1134) into a major arena of medieval Christian/Islamic contact: the Islamic Ebro River march of Aragon. Based on an extensive examination of primary and secondary sources, the book's insights into the social and political processes of Christian settlement and the fate of post-conquest Islam are of particular importance. Its conclusions that the freeholding of land characterized the Ebro's Christian settlement, and not heavy seignorialization, and that Christian settlement relied on the Muslim infrastructure, challenge significantly the neo-Marxist thesis of the “feudalization” of twelfth-century Christian Iberian society and the corresponding Christian break with Iberia's Islamic Past. This book constitutes a fundamental work in Iberian frontier studies.

Book The Founder of Opus Dei

Download or read book The Founder of Opus Dei written by Andrés Vázquez de Prada and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the three-volume biography of St. Josemaría covers one of the most remarkable periods of his life: from the outbreak of the civil war in 1936 to his departure for Rome in 1946. In Republican Spain fierce anti-Catholic persecution led St. Josemaría to do his priestly work in secret, fully aware that if caught, he would be executed - as were 6000 other priests. This book recounts the saint's dangerous journey across the Pyrenees to the Nationalist zone, where he could exercise his priestly ministry more freely, his tireless labors to counter (with both heroic charity and determination) the slanders that threatened to overwhelm Opus Dei, and more. Here is an unforgettable picture of the saint's activity during the years of crisis that threatened to obliterate his great gift to the church: Opus Dei.

Book Geography Since the Second World War  RLE Social   Cultural Geography

Download or read book Geography Since the Second World War RLE Social Cultural Geography written by Ron Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of geography has undergone much change and growth in recent years. With growth has come diversity. Before 1945 there were differences between countries in the emphases on subject matter and research approach, although these were all related closely to three main ‘models’ – French, German and American. Since then, the relative importance of French and German influences has declined substantially, including within their own national territories, and the Anglo-American model has grown to world dominance. With that model, however, there is no dominant point of view but rather a multiplicity of competing approaches. These various approaches have had a different reception in other parts of the world, reflecting the base of pre-1945 geographical scholarship, the goals of geographical work set by soceities and the nature of the international contacts. The result is substantial international diversity in the practice of geography. This authoritative volume provides much needed information to make them aware of current international trends.

Book Modern Geography

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  • Author : Gary S. Dunbar
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-02-05
  • ISBN : 131730831X
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Modern Geography written by Gary S. Dunbar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform. The book also discusses how technical and theoretical advancements have generated a renewed sense of philosophic reflection – a concern closely linked with the critical examination and development of social theory.

Book Geographical Review

Download or read book Geographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uncommon Faith

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  • Author : John F. Coverdale
  • Publisher : Scepter Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781889334745
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Uncommon Faith written by John F. Coverdale and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the early years of Opus Dei and shows why St. Josemaría Escrivá so quickly became renowned for his sanctity. Bringing to light details found only in hard-to-find Spanish sources, author John Coverdale highlights St. Josemaría's tireless, courageous efforts to spread the message of lay holiness even amid the terror and uncertainty of the Spanish Civil War. Coverdale explains how St. Josemaría helped others find Jesus Christ through a lay spirituality that anticipated Vatican II by thirty years.

Book At God s Pace

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  • Author : François Gondrand
  • Publisher : Scepter Publishers
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780906138274
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book At God s Pace written by François Gondrand and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City

Download or read book Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City written by Jesús Manuel González Pérez and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.

Book The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century written by James Casey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces.

Book Roots of Empire

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  • Author : John T. Wing
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2015-01-27
  • ISBN : 9004261370
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Roots of Empire written by John T. Wing and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots of Empire is the first monograph to connect forest management and state-building in the early modern Spanish global monarchy. The Spanish crown's control over valuable sources of shipbuilding timber in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines was critical for developing and sustaining its maritime empire. This book examines Spain's forest management policies from the sixteenth century through the middle of the eighteenth century, connecting the global imperial level with local lived experiences in forest communities impacted by this manifestation of expanded state power. As home to the early modern world's most extensive forestry bureaucracy, Spain met serious political, technological, and financial limitations while still managing to address most of its timber needs without upending the social balance.

Book Bridging Cultural Geographies

Download or read book Bridging Cultural Geographies written by Robert B. Kent and published by Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers several examples of the interest that some researchers from Europe and the USA have in Latin America lands, as well as the more specific influence on a variety of fields, such as agriculture, construction, religion or traditions in countries like Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia and Chile.

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1974-10 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Book Medieval France and Her Pyrenean Neighbours

Download or read book Medieval France and Her Pyrenean Neighbours written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of feudalism and finance in France and Spain. Divided into four sections, it covers the use rulers made of courts, parlements, and assemblies for ceremonial, political and fiscal purposes; the institutional formation of Catalonia; comparative studies of France, Catalonia and Aragon in the twelfth century; and monetary and fiscal policies of contemporary rulers.

Book Library of Congress Name Headings with References

Download or read book Library of Congress Name Headings with References written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geography and the Human Spirit

Download or read book Geography and the Human Spirit written by Anne Buttimer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: