Download or read book Los secretos de las calles de Madrid written by Carla Nieto Martínez and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los secretos de las calles de Madrid written by Carla Nieto and published by Ma Non Troppo. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madrid es sorpresa, magia, leyenda, historia, humor y muchísimas cosas más. Sus calles esconden secretos que han permanecido ocultos a las miradas de los curiosos. El tiempo se ha encargado de desvelar muchos de ellos. La intención de este libro es compartir con el lector las anécdotas y los hechos históricos que se produjeron en las vías más famosas de la capital, pero también participar de las sensaciones que se producen al recorrer algunos de los lugares más típicos de la ciudad. -¿Es cierto que en la Plaza de la Paja se lidiaban toros? -¿Qué historia de amor tuvo lugar en la calle de Barbieri? -¿Cuál es el origen del dicho "la casa de tócame Roque"? -¿Quién fue Juan Bravo Murillo? -¿Qué fenómenos extraños se produjeron en la calle Caballero de Gracia? La impronta de esta Villa y Corte universal se refleja en sus muros, en sus calles y en su asfalto, siempre dispuesta a dejarse descubrir por los ojos curiosos del paseante ocasional que mira y admira cada uno de sus rincones. Esquinas, rincones, fuentes y rejas de la ciudad de Madrid esconden anécdotas que, al oírlas, sorprenden al paseante y lo acercan con ánimo curioso al balcón de la historia. Porque si algo tiene esta ciudad es que ha sido testigo de pasiones, traiciones, misterios y secretos que han forjado su leyenda. La autora de este libro pinta un retrato en el que pueden verse los rasgos que distinguen a esta gran ciudad con pinceladas de su historia, los establecimientos más curiosos y los personajes que transitaron por ella. Y lo hace de la mejor manera que puede hacerse, paseando por sus calles y haciéndonos llegar el aroma y el color de esta acogedora ciudad. -¿Qué sucesos dieron nombre a la calle de la Cabeza? -¿Sabía que en la plaza de la Cebada tuvieron lugar ejecuciones públicas? -¿Cuál es el bucólico origen de la calle del Clavel? -¿Conocía la existencia del cemente- rio de la calle de las Huertas? -¿Qué leyenda se cuenta de la calle del Pez?
Download or read book Spain 1936 written by Raanan Rein and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, this volume takes a close look at the initial political moves, military actions and consequences of the fratricidal conflict and their impact on both Spaniards and contemporary European powers. The contributors re-examine the crystallization of the political alliances formed in the Republican and the Nationalist zones; the support mobilized by the two warring camps; and the different attitudes and policies adopted by neighbouring and far away countries. Spain 1936: Year Zero goes beyond and against commonly held assumptions as to the supposed unity of the Nationalist camp vis-a-vis the fragmentation of the Republican one; and likewise brings to the fore the complexities of initial support of the military rebellion by Nazi Germany and Soviet support of the beleaguered Republic. Situating the Iberian conflict in the larger international context, senior and junior scholars from various countries challenge the multitude of hitherto accepted ideas about the beginnings of the Spanish Civil War. A primary aim of the editors is to enable discussion on the Spanish Civil War from lesser known or realized perspectives by investigating the civil wars impact on countries such as Argentina, Japan, and Jewish Palestine; and from lesser heard voices at the time of women, intellectuals, and athletes. Original contributions are devoted to the Popular Olympiad organized in Barcelona in July 1936, Japanese perceptions of the Spanish conflict in light of the 1931 invasion to Manchuria, and international volunteers in the International Brigades.
Download or read book Secretos y cenizas written by Mercedes Santos and published by Cute Ediciones SRL. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1738, Carina de Ulloa recibe la carta que cambiará su vida. Su padre, un marino de la Armada Real destinado al Virreinato de Nueva Granada, le pide que se reúna con él en Cartagena de Indias. La esperan una fortuna en cacaotales y un aristócrata venido a menos con quien casarse. Pero al desembarcar le informan que su padre fue asesinado y su prometido se casó con otra. Pronto Carina descubrirá los turbios negocios de su padre, el contrabando generalizado, el clima de guerra que se vive en todo el Caribe entre España e Inglaterra, la existencia de una hermanastra mulata perseguida por la Inquisición y los pasquines difamatorios que la han puesto en ridículo antes de llegar a la ciudad. Su camino se cruzará con el de Diego de Veranz, un malcriado aristócrata desterrado de la ciudad acusado de un crimen, que tras su fachada de bonvivant trabaja en secreto para la Corona. Oculto tras el disfraz de letrado, ayudará a la mujer a la que él mismo convirtió en el hazmerreír de toda Cartagena. Ambos buscan venganza, pero serán arrollados por un elemento imprevisto: la pasión.Las plantaciones de cacao, las misas negras en las ciénagas, el poder de la Inquisición y el lujo de la corte virreinal, el pirateo en Jamaica y Tortuga, el asalto inglés a Portobello y el ataque inglés a Cartagena -el mayor en la historia naval hasta el de Normandía doscientos años después-, son el escenario de esta heroica novela de amor.
Download or read book La Narrativa de Isaac Montero written by Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essential Course in Modern Spanish written by H. Ramsden and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essential Course in Modern Spanish provides Advanced Level students with the essentials of Spanish vocabulary, grammar and idioms.
Download or read book The American Detective Novel in Translation written by Daniel Peter LINDER MOLIN and published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empleando una metodología propia de los estudios descriptivos de traduc- ción, se analiza un corpus de cuatro novelas del autor norteamericano Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, 1939; Farewell, My Lovely, 1940; The Little Sister, 1949; y The Long Goodbye, 1954) y las traducciones al español publica- das en Argentina y España.
Download or read book Historias en un minuto written by sergio lozano zarco and published by sergio lozano zarco. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LO LARGO DE SUS TREINTA Y OCHO HISTORIAS, DESCUBRIRÁS SENTIMIENTOS QUE CREÍAS GUARDADOS Y QUE BROTAN CON LA LECTURA DE ESTE LIBRO SENCILLO Y A LA VEZ PROFUNDO. HISTORIAS PARA PERDERSE DENTRO DE ELLAS, PARA LEER Y RELEER. RELATOS SIN UNA CONEXIÓN DIRECTA ENTRE ELLOS, QUE TOCAN LO MÁS ÍNTIMO DEL LECTOR.
Download or read book La Solidaridad written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Ara a Negra written by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on with total page 2702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La obra, compuesta de dos tomos, fue considerada una obra folletinesca (subgénero, que en Francia se conoció como feulleton-roman, en boga entre finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX) probablemente para restarle importancia a la durísima crítica contra la Compañía de Jesús que esta obra contiene. Blasco Ibañez la escribió en su juventud, y más tarde la repudiaría, al no incluirla en sus Obras completas. Blasco Ibáñez dedicó gran parte de su tiempo al estudio de la Iglesia y su funcionamiento. Éste es el germen de la novela, en la cual se narra la historia de los Baselga, una familia noble de la España de comienzos del siglo XIX, íntimamente relacionada con los Jesuitas. En la novela, la Compañía de Jesús teje con infinita paciencia una tela de araña contra esta acaudalada familia con el fín de apropiarse de su fortuna. A lo largo de toda la novela se trata esta relación, analizando el comportamiento y funcionamiento de la Compañía de Jesús de una forma extensa.
Download or read book Domesticating Empire written by Karen Stolley and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest, responding in the context of increasing racial and economic diversification. Yet despite recent efforts to broaden our understanding of the global Enlightenment, the Ibero-American eighteenth century has often been overlooked. Through the work of five authors--Jose de Oviedo y Banos, Juan Ignacio Molina, Felix de Azara, Catalina de Jesus Herrera, and Felix de Arrate--Domesticating Empire explores the Ibero-American Enlightenment as a project that reflects both key Enlightenment concerns and the particular preoccupations of Bourbon Spain and its territories in the Americas. At a crucial moment in Spain's imperial trajectory, these authors domesticate topics central to empire--conquest, Indians, nature, God, and gold--by making them familiar and utilitarian. As a result, their works later proved resistant to overarching schemes of Latin American literary history and have been largely forgotten. Nevertheless, eighteenth-century Ibero-American writing complicates narratives about both the Enlightenment and Latin American cultural identity.
Download or read book La Belle Cr ole written by Alina García-Lapuerta and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Raised in Cuba and shipped off to live with her socialite mother in Spain at the age of 13, Mercedes triumphed over the political chaos that blanketed Europe in the Napoleonic days, by charming aristocrats from all sides with her exotic beauty and singing voice. She married General Merlin in Napoleon's army and discussed painting with Francisco de Goya. In Paris she hosted the city's premier musical salon where Liszt, Rossini, and great divas of the day performed for Rothschilds, Balzac, and royalty. Celebrated as one of the greatest amateur sopranos of her day, Mercedes also achieved fame as a writer. Her memoirs and travel writings introduced European audiences to 19th-century Cuban society and contributed to the debate over slavery. Mercedes has recently been rediscovered as Cuba's earliest female author and one who deserves a place in the canon of Latin American literature.
Download or read book Connecting Territories written by Simona Boscani Leoni and published by Emergence of Natural History. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories"--
Download or read book Madrid written by Virgilio Pinto Crespo and published by Lunwerg Editores. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra, editada con motivo de la celebración del 200 aniversario de la guerra de la Independencia nos propone una revisión ilustrada de uno de los sucesos más estrechamente unido a la historia de la ciudad de Madrid, y también a la de España. Junto a esta visión retrospectiva, este título propone también una visión actual de aquellos lugares de la ciudad que vivieron con toda su intensidad aquel momento histórico.
Download or read book Cuban Studies 34 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Download or read book A Face Not Turned to the Wall written by Carlos A. Longhurst and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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