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Book The Dutch Revolt Through Spanish Eyes

Download or read book The Dutch Revolt Through Spanish Eyes written by Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and literary works from the Spanish Golden Age offer a wealth of information about the Spanish view of the conflict in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt and the ensuing Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). The war in the cold north was to become a fixed component in the lives of the Spaniards of the Golden Age for many years. This book reconstructs the images that the Spanish had of the Netherlands and its inhabitants. These images are inextricably intertwined with the picture that the Spanish constructed of themselves as participants in the conflict. This book follows the developments of these images from the construction of an image of the enemy that reached a climax between 1621 and 1648 and then gradually faded away. Which images and representations circulated the most, and where did they come from? Which rhetoric was used to present them to the public, and in which genres and contexts were they disseminated and preserved? On the basis of a varied collection of sources, war chronicles and plays, as well as pamphlets, poems, historical works and prose writings, the author illustrates the appearance of the Netherlands through Spanish eyes during the course of the Eighty Years' War.

Book The Spanish Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Havard
  • Publisher : Tamesis Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781855661431
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Eye written by Robert Havard and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding principle of this title is that the 'sister arts' of painting and poetry are mutually illuminating, their common currency being the visual image. Five masters - El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Picasso and Dali - are discussed, with a view to distinguishing what is peculiarly Spanish in their way of looking at reality.

Book Spanish Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Earl Grant
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Spanish Eyes written by Earl Grant and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jackie Griffey
  • Publisher : Five Star
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781594146145
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Spanish Eyes written by Jackie Griffey and published by Five Star. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eleana Castillo arrives in Las Flores from Mexico to work and meet her brother Carlos, who is already working there, her troubles begin. Carlos has disappeared without a trace and Carlotta, her sister-in-law who is with child, is missing from her home in Mexico.

Book The Complete Piano Player

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Baker
  • Publisher : Amsco Music
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780825624360
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book The Complete Piano Player written by Kenneth Baker and published by Amsco Music. This book was released on 1984 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 5 of this popular series will teach you new skills and techniques while reinforcing skills already learned. You will learn more about phrasing and how dynamics in music can transform your playing. Four new keys are introduced and new left hand techniques are introduced.

Book Elvis Presley Concerts and Rehearsals from 1944 to 1977

Download or read book Elvis Presley Concerts and Rehearsals from 1944 to 1977 written by Marco Durzu and published by Marco Durzu. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to and wants to honor the MUSIC of ELVIS PRESLEY. This book contains information relating to Elvis Presley’s concert activity currently known and publicly known, from 1944 to 1977, reporting the shows and rehearsals of the shows, with detailed information on the audio recordings of the same, in particular original CDs and bootlegs. Furthermore, the shows that were canceled during Elvis Presley’s lifetime were also indicated. - 1902 Shows and Rehearsals of which 1867 performed and 35 canceled from 1944 to 1977 (98,16 %) !!! - 818 Shows recorded of 1867 Shows and Rehearsals performed from 1944 to 1977 (43,81 %) !!! I chose to report the shows in chronological order, year by year, from 1944 to 1977, following a progressive numbering also for the tours. I have added: a chapter dedicated to interviews, films and television appearances, that Elvis Presley made from 1956 to 1977, containing detailed information on the audio and video recordings of the same: - 135 Interviews (1954 - 1977) !!! - 31 Films (1956 - 1969) - 2 Films during 1970 and 1972 Shows !!! - 17 TV Shows (1956 - 1977) !!! a chapter dedicated to the complete Elvis Presley U.S.A. Discography - Albums (1956 / 2024): - 268 Extended-Plays / Studio-Albums / Soundtrack-Albums / Live-Albums / Spoken-Word-Albums / Compilation-Albums / Budget-Albums / Box-Set-Albums / Posthumous-Compilation-Albums / Remix-Albums !!! a chapter dedicated to the complete Elvis Presley U.S.A. Discography - Singles (1954 / 1979): - 204 Singles a chapter dedicated to the complete Elvis Presley F.T.D. Discography (2009 / 2024): - 214 titles !!! a chapter dedicated to the complete Elvis Presley Recording Sessions (1953 / 1982) !!! from 1944 to 1977, I started reporting the shows and rehearsals of the shows, with detailed information on the VIDEO recordings of the same, in particular 8 mm and VHS Films, VCDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. At the end of the book there are: statistical tables relating to all the information reported in it; a Guide to listening to ANALOG/DIGITAL MUSIC, which illustrates the fundamental theoretical concepts for listening to it, the digital formats used (WAVE, FLAC, DSD, DXD) in their most updated forms in order to listen to the music with the highest possible quality; a Guide to viewing DIGITAL VIDEO, which illustrates the theoretical foundations for viewing digital videos, the digital television formats used (HDTV, 4K, 8K), the types of interfaces and cables used (Serial Digital Interface, Firewire, HDMI, Digital Visual Interface, DisplayPort), the coding methods of data on cassettes and optical discs respectively, in their most updated forms in order to view digital videos with the highest possible quality. In the end I want to thank, with my heart and soul, Elvis Presley, for the unique talent he was able to express through his music, which gives me and many other people and will always give pure joy and happiness. Enjoy reading !!! Updated - Edition 1.10 !!!

Book In Classic Shades  and Other Poems

Download or read book In Classic Shades and Other Poems written by Joaquin Miller and published by Chicago, Belford-Clarke Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Celia S  nchez

Download or read book Celia S nchez written by Richard Haney and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearless and brilliant, Celia Sanchez was the dynamo whose Revolution took off while Castro was sweating in prison. Her friends share memories and her own letters to describe her strategies, her relationship with Fidel Castro, and her communications with Washington and Moscow.

Book Two Hearts as One

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesse Wilson
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 1449089747
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Two Hearts as One written by Jesse Wilson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems come from the heart of a commom man. It is my sincere hope that they touch the hearts of others as they have my own. This hope is expressed in the title "Two Hearts As One".

Book 150 of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever  Songbook

Download or read book 150 of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This fourth edition has been updated to feature 150 of the best ballads of all time! Includes: Always on My Mind * Blue Moon * Body and Soul * (They Long to Be) Close to You * Fly Me to the Moon * How Deep Is Your Love * Longer * My Funny Valentine * Some Enchanted Evening * Tears in Heaven * Tenderly * Till There Was You * You Are So Beautiful * and scores more!

Book Making Hispanics

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. Cristina Mora
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-03-07
  • ISBN : 022603397X
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Making Hispanics written by G. Cristina Mora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics. She uses an organizational lens and traces how activists, bureaucrats, and media executives in the 1970s and '80s created a new identity category—and by doing so, permanently changed the racial and political landscape of the nation. Some argue that these cultures are fundamentally similar and that the Spanish language is a natural basis for a unified Hispanic identity. But Mora shows very clearly that the idea of ethnic grouping was historically constructed and institutionalized in the United States. During the 1960 census, reports classified Latin American immigrants as “white,” grouping them with European Americans. Not only was this decision controversial, but also Latino activists claimed that this classification hindered their ability to portray their constituents as underrepresented minorities. Therefore, they called for a separate classification: Hispanic. Once these populations could be quantified, businesses saw opportunities and the media responded. Spanish-language television began to expand its reach to serve the now large, and newly unified, Hispanic community with news and entertainment programming. Through archival research, oral histories, and interviews, Mora reveals the broad, national-level process that led to the emergence of Hispanicity in America.

Book Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism

Download or read book Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism written by Sandra Montón-Subías and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​​Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative perspective on colonial processes and colonial situations, and the ways in which they were experienced by the different peoples. But we also focus on marginal “unsuccessful” colonial episodes. Thus, some of the papers deal with very brief colonial events, even “marginal” in some cases, considered “failures” by the Spanish crown or even undertook without their consent. These short events are usually overlooked by traditional historiography, which is why archaeological research is particularly important in these cases, since archaeological remains may be the only type of evidence that stands as proof of these colonial events. At the same time, it critically examines the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, and questions the ideological underpinnings of the source material required to address such a vast issue. Accordingly, the book strikes a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, integrated to a lesser or greater extent in most of the chapters.​

Book The Story of Spanish

Download or read book The Story of Spanish written by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe. Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled the history of the French language in The Story of French, now look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, The Story of Spanish is the first full biography of a language that shaped the world we know, and the only global language with two names—Spanish and Castilian. The story starts when the ancient Phoenicians set their sights on "The Land of the Rabbits," Spain's original name, which the Romans pronounced as Hispania. The Spanish language would pick up bits of Germanic culture, a lot of Arabic, and even some French on its way to taking modern form just as it was about to colonize a New World. Through characters like Queen Isabella, Christopher Columbus, Cervantes, and Goya, The Story of Spanish shows how Spain's Golden Age, the Mexican Miracle, and the Latin American Boom helped shape the destiny of the language. Other, more somber episodes, also contributed, like the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of Spain's Jews, the destruction of native cultures, the political instability in Latin America, and the dictatorship of Franco. The Story of Spanish shows there is much more to Spanish than tacos, flamenco, and bullfighting. It explains how the United States developed its Hispanic personality from the time of the Spanish conquistadors to Latin American immigration and telenovelas. It also makes clear how fundamentally Spanish many American cultural artifacts and customs actually are, including the dollar sign, barbecues, ranching, and cowboy culture. The authors give us a passionate and intriguing chronicle of a vibrant language that thrived through conquests and setbacks to become the tongue of Pedro Almodóvar and Gabriel García Márquez, of tango and ballroom dancing, of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people throughout the world.

Book The Spanish War

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. J. A. O'Toole
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780393303049
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Spanish War written by G. J. A. O'Toole and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "O'Toole is . . . astonishingly good. . . . [He] is a master of the knack of weaving significant detail into his recapitulation of the war." --Alden Whitman, Chicago Sun-Times

Book Devil s Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : C R Dempsey
  • Publisher : CRMPD Media Limited
  • Release : 2024-10-15
  • ISBN : 1914945409
  • Pages : 683 pages

Download or read book Devil s Island written by C R Dempsey and published by CRMPD Media Limited. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For King, for country, for family. Stranded on the unforgiving shores of Ireland, Francisco Butero, a captain of the once-mighty Spanish Armada, must summon all his strength and wits to stay alive. The land is divided between English occupation and bloody inter-clan warfare and there is a large price on the heads of survivors of the Armada. As he fights to survive against the unrelenting pursuit of the cunning English soldiers, he must also navigate the treacherous landscape of rival clans all vying for power. Despite the unforgiving environment and the constant danger posed by his enemies, Francisco remains resolute in his mission to reunite with his family in Spain. Every step is a battle for survival against nature and his foes, but his determination may not be enough to overcome the seemingly insurmountable obstacles ahead. He must confront his deepest fears and doubts as he struggles to find a way back home. Devil’s Island is a sort of prequel to the epic Irish historical fiction Exiles series. It is set against the backdrop of the Elizabethan wars in Ireland and the Spanish Armada in 1588. A world of Irish clans and their politics, where the price on the head of a Spanish captain is enough for most rebels to turn him over to the English crown. If you love fast-paced action and adventure orientated historical fiction then you will love this book. Buy Devil’s Island to discover this exciting new series today.

Book The Best Songs Ever  Songbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 1983-12-01
  • ISBN : 1458426165
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book The Best Songs Ever Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The seventh edition of this bestseller includes 72 all-time hits: Always * Bewitched * Candle in the Wind * Crazy * Georgia on My Mind * Imagine * Let It Be * Memory * Piano Man * Send In the Clowns * Skylark * Time in a Bottle * What a Wonderful World * Yesterday * and dozens more!

Book Joyce s Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses

Download or read book Joyce s Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses written by Luca Crispi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature—Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom—as well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. From a genetic critical perspective, it explores the conception and evolution of the Blooms as fictional characters in the work's wide range of surviving notes and manuscripts. At the same time, it also chronicles the production of Ulysses from 1917 to its first edition in 1922 and beyond. Based on decades of research, it is an original engagement with the textual archive of Ulysses, including the exciting, recently discovered manuscripts now in the National Library of Ireland. The book excavates the raw material and examines the creative processes Joyce deployed in the construction of the Blooms and so the writing of Ulysses. Framed by a contextual introduction and four bibliographical appendices, the seven main chapters are a critical investigation of the fictional events and memories that constitute the 'lives' of the Blooms. Thereby, it is also a commentary on Joyceâs conception of Ulysses more generally. Crispi analyses how the stories in the published book achieved their final form and discloses previously unexamined versions of them for everyone who enjoys reading Ulysses. This book demonstrates the various ways in which specialist textual work on the genesis of Ulysses directly intersects with other critical and interpretive readings. Becoming the Blooms is a behind-the-scenes guide to the creation of one of the most important books ever written.