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Book En tiempos de guerra

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  • Author : Josefa Ruiz Rueda
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book En tiempos de guerra written by Josefa Ruiz Rueda and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Goya

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  • Author : Janis Tomlinson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 0691234124
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Goya written by Janis Tomlinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern era The life of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing period of political instability. In this revelatory biography, Janis Tomlinson draws on a wide range of documents—including letters, court papers, and a sketchbook used by Goya in the early years of his career—to provide a nuanced portrait of a complex and multifaceted painter and printmaker, whose art is synonymous with compelling images of the people, events, and social revolution that defined his life and era. Tomlinson challenges the popular image of the artist as an isolated figure obsessed with darkness and death, showing how Goya's likeability and ambition contributed to his success at court, and offering new perspectives on his youth, rich family life, extensive travels, and lifelong friendships. She explores the full breadth of his imagery—from scenes inspired by life in Madrid to visions of worlds without reason, from royal portraits to the atrocities of war. She sheds light on the artist's personal trials, including the deaths of six children and the onset of deafness in middle age, but also reconsiders the conventional interpretation of Goya's late years as a period of disillusion, viewing them instead as years of liberated artistic invention, most famously in the murals on the walls of his country house, popularly known as the "black" paintings. A monumental achievement, Goya: A Portrait of the Artist is the definitive biography of an artist whose faith in his art and his genius inspired paintings, drawings, prints, and frescoes that continue to captivate, challenge, and surprise us two centuries later.

Book Aurora Bertrana

Download or read book Aurora Bertrana written by Silvia Roig and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan andSpanish, including: Ariatea (1960), El pomell de les violes (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). She studies her work, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertana's strong commitment to social issues reveals her association with the Modernist and Noucentists trends of her time. Bertrana's novels reveal a unique interest in non-Western cultures and lifestyles and her work undertakes controversial topics and socio-cultural issues, while she observes and draws special attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. This book is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect with consideration of gender, such as travel-and-gender and war-and-gender. Roig uses the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and Patrice Higonnet, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana's engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into self-exile during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Silvia Roig is a Faculty Member, BMCC Department of Modern Languages, The City University of New York.

Book The Sandinista Revolution

Download or read book The Sandinista Revolution written by Mateo Jarquín and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers. Jarquin offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post–Cold War order.

Book De Orwell al cibercontrol

Download or read book De Orwell al cibercontrol written by Armand Mattelart y André Vitalis and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las recientes revelaciones sobre las prácticas ilegales de la Agencia Americana de Seguridad (NSA), o el descubrimiento por parte de un usuario del rastreo digital masivo realizado por Facebook testimonian la magnitud de la hipervigilancia a la que estamos sometidos. Sin embargo, lejos del modelo disciplinario tradicional sobre el que alertaba George Orwell en su Gran Hermano, ahora los controles se ejercen desde múltiples y sofisticados frentes, en los que cada vez es mayor la participación involuntaria de los ciudadanos. Armand Mattelart y André Vitalis nos proponen reflexionar sobre un novedoso e inquietante concepto: el perfilado, esto es, el control indirecto de los individuos —a menudo con el propósito de anticipar sus comportamientos— a través del estudio y explotación sistemáticos de sus datos —ya sean sus desplazamientos o sus pautas de consumo—. Mientras que el modelo de vigilancia totalitario exhibía su control, en el mundo post-orwelliano éste se nos impone sin plena conciencia por nuestra parte; es invisible, y esta invisibilidad, potenciada por la desmaterialización de los soportes, garantiza su efectividad en una población crecientemente fascinada por las nuevas tecnologías que, sin embargo, no perciben como tecnologías de control.

Book Inter America

Download or read book Inter America written by James Cook Bardin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of English translations of articles in the Spanish American press.

Book The Dead March

Download or read book The Dead March written by Peter Guardino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize Winner of the Utley Prize Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History “The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue...Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.” —James Oakes, New York Review of Books “Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force.” —Journal of American History It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican–American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.

Book Caminando Por La Vida En Zapatillas

Download or read book Caminando Por La Vida En Zapatillas written by Patricia Gallegos and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mujer en mis silencios, mujer en mi soledad, mujer en mi lamentos, mujer cuando lloro y cuando rio y cuando el corazón me explota de contento, siempre mujer... mujer todo el tiempo.

Book Wars of Latin America  1982 2013

Download or read book Wars of Latin America 1982 2013 written by René De La Pedraja and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years from 1982 into mid-2013. Although the text concentrates on combat operations, matters of politics, business and international relations appear as necessary to understand the wars. The author has uncovered many previously unknown sources to provide new information never published before. The book traces the many insurgencies in Latin America as well as conventional wars. Among the highlights are the chapters on the Falklands War and the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama. One useful aspect of the text is an explanation of why, of the many insurgencies appearing in Latin America, only those in Cuba and Nicaragua were successful in overthrowing governments. The book also helps explain why even unsuccessful insurgencies have survived for decades, as has happened in Colombia and Peru. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book El azote de Dios

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  • Author : Josep Carles Clemente
  • Publisher : Editorial Manuscritos
  • Release : 2013-07-14
  • ISBN : 8494152807
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book El azote de Dios written by Josep Carles Clemente and published by Editorial Manuscritos. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los avances conseguidos en el Concilio Vaticano II parecen ser definitivamente aparcados, sobre todo, desde la llegada al papado del cardenal Ratzinger e iniciada por el Papa Juan Pablo II. La reciente elección de un nuevo pontífice, de nacionalidad argentina, el Papa Francisco, está por ver por dónde se inclinará. En el presente texto se aborda el tema de la relación de la Iglesia y el Carlismo en la España contemporánea. El Carlismo nunca se sintió favorecido por la Iglesia, institución que ha cruzado el Rubicón desde la época de Juan XXIII, en la que se afirmó el pluralismo político y se negó el apoyo al proyecto democristiano de Joaquín Ruíz Giménez. Todo ello ha hecho crecer lo que ya se creía enterrado: el anticlericalismo. Un ejemplo de la respuesta carlista fue la advertencia de Don Javier al cardenal Tarancón, presidente entonces de la Conferencia Episcopal Española. En el texto se relatan desde los enormes privilegios que goza la Iglesia actual hasta su enfrentamiento a todo planteamiento que significara un avance o renovación ideológica de la sociedad española. Posiblemente este trabajo escandalizará a algunos y, sin embargo, a otros les parecerá que nos hemos quedado cortos. El asunto tiene su lógica, ya que lo contrario sería creer que la actual sociedad española pasa de todo. Pero está demostrado que no es así.

Book Tiempos de Ar  valo Cede  o

Download or read book Tiempos de Ar valo Cede o written by José León Tapia and published by Editorial Alfa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End of the Spanish Civil War

Download or read book The End of the Spanish Civil War written by Jonathan Whitehead and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until they could force concessions or at least implement a mass evacuation of those Republicans most at risk in Franco’s new Spain, the government withdrew to Elda in the province of Alicante. However, their plans were thwarted by a new rebellion of Republican officers, led by Colonel Segismundo Casado, who resented Negrín’s reliance on the Communist Party and the USSR and believed themselves better equipped to negotiate a peace settlement with Franco. They were misguided, Franco had no wish, and ultimately no need to negotiate. Meanwhile, faced with the imminent risk of arrest by the new junta, the Prime Minister and his cabinet were forced to abandon Spain from the tiny aerodrome of Monóvar. A relatively quiet port on the eastern, Mediterranean coast of Spain, Alicante had remained at some distance from the frontlines throughout the fighting on the ground, but swiftly became a target for Italian bombers operating out of bases in the Balearic Islands. In May 1938, at the height of the air offensive, Italian bombers attacked the marketplace, causing a massacre as tragic as the events in Guernica, yet largely ignored by historians. As the war drew towards its conclusion, Alicante became increasingly significant as attention focused on the plight of the defeated Republicans. In the second half of March 1939, the fronts collapsed, and Madrid finally fell to the insurgents. Tens of thousands of refugees descended on Alicante in the forlorn hope of rescue by French and British ships that had been promised but which failed to materialise. Amid the tragedy, as the British and French governments declined to engage in any humanitarian intervention that might offend Hitler and Mussolini, a single hero emerged; Captain Archibald Dickson, the Welsh master of the Stanbrook who ditched his cargo and transported 3,000 refugees to safety in North Africa. On 30 March 1939, Franco’s vanguard, the Italian ‘Volunteer’ Corps under General Gastone Gambara, occupied a town already under the control of the Fifth Column. Two days later the Generalísimo issued a communiqué from his headquarters in Burgos, declaring that the war was over. The bulk of the Republicans surrounded and captured in the port were marched to an improvised internment camp, known as the Campo de los Almendros (Field of Almond Trees). They were then transferred to the infamous concentration camp at Albatera to share the fate of defeated Republicans across Spain and to undergo the program of ideological cleansing of the new fascist authorities.

Book Las Langostas

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  • Author : J. J. Vasquez
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012-03
  • ISBN : 1463314442
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book Las Langostas written by J. J. Vasquez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Las langostas" es un análisis profético de nuestros tiempos de la era del desarrollo científico y sus orígenes, basado y amparado rigurosamente en el cumplimiento de las sagradas escrituras y el efecto de éstas en nuestra generación. Obviamente cuando estamos viviendo un lapso de periodo profético, muchas veces no nos damos cuenta, ni nos tomamos el tiempo para indagar a cerca del que periodo estamos viviendo dentro de la profecía bíblica, sin embargo, sabemos que a través de las sagradas escrituras, nuestras generaciones han sido marcadas por patrones proféticos que han evolucionado grandes cambios en nuestra humanidad, afectando así al mundo entero. "Las langostas" se basa en todos los textos bíblicos que hacen alusión a ellas, descifrando así el misterio escondido tras los símbolos que tienen impresos, pues según los eventos bíblicos, estas langostas han representado a los ejércitos y gobiernos más temibles del mundo tanto de las eras pasadas como de nuestra era moderna. Según el profeta Nahúm 3:17; lo narra de esa manera. "Las langostas" narra por lo general, el simbolismo profético narrado en Apocalipsis Capitulo nueve, toda la simbología misteriosa, los atuendos y la forma espantosa que poseen estos seres simbólicos, son analizados juntamente con otros libros proféticos dentro de las sagradas escrituras. Debido a que se han hecho muchas especulaciones a cerca de esta profecía y su cumplimiento para el futuro, es eminente que la estamos viviendo en nuestro propio tiempo y debemos darle importancia, ya que, estamos viviendo los tiempos del fin, la culminación del planeta y la humanidad. Todas las profecías están descubiertas cuando se cumplen y se convierten en historias, sin que muchas veces se les de la importancia necesaria e ignorando que luego se acerca algo peor que nunca se imaginó. Las langostas es una profecía de la cual se derivan muchas otras profecías eventuales, que causan daño y perjudican al mundo entero, por esta razón los misterios que envuelven a estos caballos llamados langostas son analizados de diversas maneras por los estudiosos, pero no olvidemos que las respuestas y su decodificación las encontramos dentro de la Biblia. Todos los profetas señalaron esta generación, incluso los patriarcas pre-diluvianos se enfocaron en la profecía de los últimos tiempos, tal como, lo hizo Enoc séptimo, ya que, las últimas generaciones alcanzarían un desarrollo extraordinario científico y esto llevaría a un ateísmo empedernido, negando así, la creencia en el Dios soberano y salvador de nuestras vidas. Pero siempre habrá un remanente fiel a nuestro creador en este periodo del desarrollo científico confuso. Daniel 12:4.

Book Biografia Autorizado de Jesus  Maria  Jose Y Sus Discipulos Segunda Edic  on

Download or read book Biografia Autorizado de Jesus Maria Jose Y Sus Discipulos Segunda Edic on written by Alejandro Cuevas-Sosa and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aniversario 27 de la investigación bioenergemal ['espiritual']. Patriarcas, profetas, Buda, Jesús, María, José y socios, lamas y Mahoma se disculpan con sus seguidores por el milenario engaño que han promovido. Todas las figuras religiosas se promueven parasitando sueños, provocando en el soñante escenas e imágenes favorables o desfavorables según a ellas les convenga. Sin este recurso, ellas no hubieran podido publicitarse. Dudas como éstas del Concilio Vaticano II quizá propiciaron el biocolapso ['fallecimiento'] de Juan XXIII. No obstante, este libro no es sobre las religiones, sino acerca de quiénes las figuras religiosas, y muchas personas más, fueron y son. ¡Información excepcional!

Book El don de gobiernos

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  • Author : Dag Heward-Mills
  • Publisher : Dag Heward-Mills
  • Release : 2022-07
  • ISBN : 1683988469
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book El don de gobiernos written by Dag Heward-Mills and published by Dag Heward-Mills. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En 1 Corintios 12:28, la Biblia nos habla de una serie de dones que Dios ha puesto a disposición de la iglesia. Estos diferentes dones, en conjunto, ayudan a la iglesia de Dios a avanzar con fuerza. El don de gobierno es uno de los dones que Dios ha puesto en la iglesia. ¿Cómo debe conducirse el liderazgo de la iglesia? ¿Qué deben hacer los líderes de la iglesia? La Biblia dice claramente: «Obedeced a vuestros pastores, y sujetaos a ellos; porque ellos velan por vuestras almas, como quienes han de dar cuenta; para que lo hagan con alegría, y no quejándose, porque esto no os es provechoso». Debemos tomar en serio el don de gobierno, y este libro invaluable de Dag Heward-Mills ayudará al liderazgo de tu iglesia, a la administración de la iglesia y al gobierno de la iglesia de manera práctica todos los días.

Book From Allies to Enemies

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  • Author : Florentino Rodao
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-02-20
  • ISBN : 9811984735
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book From Allies to Enemies written by Florentino Rodao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the turnaround in Spain’s stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain’s warmongering against one of the Axis members.

Book Exporters  Review

Download or read book Exporters Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: