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Book Vistas de Espa  a

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  • Author : Mary Elizabeth Boone
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300116533
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Vistas de Espa a written by Mary Elizabeth Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the American Civil War and leading up to the First World War, a definitive shift in power took place between Spain and the United States. This original book explores American artists’ perceptions of Spain during this period of turmoil and demonstrates how their responses to Spanish art helped to answer emerging, complex questions about American national identity. M. Elizabeth Boone focuses on works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, and other American artists who traveled to Spain to study the achievements of such great masters as Murillo, Velázquez, and Goya. The resulting American paintings, some well known and others now largely forgotten, provide intriguing insights not only into the 19th-century American struggle to define itself as an imperial power but also into the relations between the United States and the Spanish-speaking world today.

Book Spanish Vistas

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  • Author : Lathrop
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Spanish Vistas written by Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Vistas

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  • Author : George Parsons Lathrop
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Spanish Vistas written by George Parsons Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Empirical Empire

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  • Author : Arndt Brendecke
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2016-10-10
  • ISBN : 3110369842
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book The Empirical Empire written by Arndt Brendecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.

Book The Spanish Element in Our Nationality

Download or read book The Spanish Element in Our Nationality written by M. Elizabeth Boone and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” delves beneath the traditional “English-only” narrative of U.S. history, using Spain’s participation in a series of international exhibitions to illuminate more fully the close and contested relationship between these two countries. Written histories invariably record the Spanish financing of Columbus’s historic voyage of 1492, but few consider Spain’s continuing influence on the development of U.S. national identity. In this book, M. Elizabeth Boone investigates the reasons for this problematic memory gap by chronicling a series of Spanish displays at international fairs. Studying the exhibition of paintings, the construction of ephemeral architectural space, and other manifestations of visual culture, Boone examines how Spain sought to position itself as a contributor to U.S. national identity, and how the United States—in comparison to other nations in North and South America—subverted and ignored Spain’s messages, making it possible to marginalize and ultimately obscure Spain’s relevance to the history of the United States. Bringing attention to the rich and understudied history of Spanish artistic production in the United States, “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” recovers the “Spanishness” of U.S. national identity and explores the means by which Americans from Santiago to San Diego used exhibitions of Spanish art and history to mold their own modern self-image.

Book SPANISH VISTAS

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  • Author : George Parsons Lathrop
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-01-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book SPANISH VISTAS written by George Parsons Lathrop and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explorez les charmes et mystères de l'Espagne à travers les yeux éclairés de George Parsons Lathrop dans "Spanish Vistas". Plongez dans des paysages envoûtants et des traditions riches alors que l'auteur américain du XIXe siècle vous guide à travers les ruelles sinueuses de l'histoire espagnole. Lathrop offre des perspectives uniques sur la culture, l'art et la vie quotidienne, capturant l'essence même de cette nation enchanteresse. Découvrez des tableaux vivants de l'Espagne, peints avec une plume experte, et laissez-vous transporter au cœur de cette aventure littéraire. "Spanish Vistas" est bien plus qu'un simple récit de voyage, c'est une invitation à une exploration immersive de l'âme espagnole, imprégnée de la passion de Lathrop pour ce pays envoûtant."

Book The Spanish Craze

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  • Author : Richard L. Kagan
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2019-03-01
  • ISBN : 1496207726
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Craze written by Richard L. Kagan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the “Black Legend,” which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt—California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida—there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain’s political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.

Book Philip II

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  • Author : Patrick Williams
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-03-14
  • ISBN : 1403913811
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Philip II written by Patrick Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years after his death, Philip II remains one of the most controversial figures in history, admired and reviled in equal measure. He is a figure of global importance, the first ruler on whose territories the sun never set. He led Europe in its defence against the seemingly irresistable power of the Ottoman Empire and many of the nations of Western Europe were forged in part by their responses to his ambitions - Portugal was conquered and most of Italy was controlled by him, while the Low Countries, England and France fought long and bitter wars against him. Philip proclaimed himself the leader of Catholic Europe but quarrelled incessantly with the popes of the Counter-Reformation. In consolidating his monarchy in Spain, Philip used the arts as a political tool; Titian and Palestrina did some of their greatest work for him. This new study traces the development of Philip II and of a kingship that lay at the heart of European political, religious and cultural evolution. It looks in detail at the ministers who worked with this most demanding of kings and at the government that evolved during his reign. It deals also with the pressures of a tortured private life and explores the paradox of a man who as a young ruler was deeply prudent but who became extraordinarily aggressive in his old age and who by his successes and failures - both of them on an epic scale - re-shaped the world in which he lived.

Book The Golden Leaf

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  • Author : Charlotte Cosner
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2015-02-10
  • ISBN : 0826520340
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Golden Leaf written by Charlotte Cosner and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a mythical wellspring of gold, tobacco quickly became crucial to the support of the swelling Spanish Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Eventually, however, tobacco became one of the final stabilizing forces in the empire, and it ultimately proved more resilient than the best laid plans of kings and queens. Tobacco, and those whose livelihoods depended on it, shrugged off the Empire's collapse and pressed on into the twentieth century as an economic force any state or political power must reckon with. Cosner explores the history of this golden leaf through the personal narratives of farmers, bureaucrats, and laborers, all struggling to build an independent and lucrative economic engine. Through conquest, rebellion, colonial and imperial schemes, and the eventual Communist revolution, Cuban tobacco and cigars became a luxury item that commanded loyalty that defied mere borders or embargoes. Ultimately, The Golden Leaf is a story of two carefully cultivated products: Cuban tobacco, and its lofty reputation.

Book Foreign Language

Download or read book Foreign Language written by University of Illinois Film Center and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Filipe Segundo  Rey de Espa  a

Download or read book Filipe Segundo Rey de Espa a written by Luis Cabrera and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Espa  a

Download or read book Espa a written by Mary Elizabeth Boone and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transcultural Spaces and Identities in Iberian Studies

Download or read book Transcultural Spaces and Identities in Iberian Studies written by Mark Gant and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together innovative research across the diverse field of Iberian Studies, including insights from economics, society, politics, literature, cinema and other art forms, either in a revisionist perspective or incorporating new data. Reflecting recent developments in the field, the subject matter extends beyond the boundaries of Spain and Portugal, as it also includes transnational and transatlantic interconnections with Europe, Africa and the Americas and its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit. The 18 chapters here are authored by established academics and early career researchers from the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and the USA. The book will appeal to students, researchers and all who have a particular interest in deepening their understanding of the countries of the Iberian Peninsula.

Book Espa  a vista por los extranjeros

Download or read book Espa a vista por los extranjeros written by José Mariano López-Cepero Jurado and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Educational Film   Video Locator of the Consortium of College and University Media Centers and R R  Bowker

Download or read book Educational Film Video Locator of the Consortium of College and University Media Centers and R R Bowker written by Consortium of College and University Media Centers and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introducci  n a las psicoterapias psicodin  micas  experienciales  sist  micas  constructivistas e integradoras

Download or read book Introducci n a las psicoterapias psicodin micas experienciales sist micas constructivistas e integradoras written by Begoña Rojí Menchaca and published by Editorial UNED. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducción a las Psicoterapias Psicodinámicas, Experienciales, Sistémicas, Constructivistas e Integradoras recoge los contenidos teóricos del segundo cuatrimestre de la asignatura Introducción a los Tratamientos Psicodinámicos, Experienciales, Sistémicos, Constructivistas e Integradores, materia opcional de la especialidad de Psicología Clínica del grado en Psicología ofrecido por la UNED. En consecuencia, el libro ha sido elaborado con las pautas metodológicas habituales en los textos básicos de esta universidad, ya que su objetivo no es otro que proporcionar a sus alumnos una formación significativa y rigurosa en los temas que aborda. Por ello, este libro constituye un expositor, contextualizado y crítico, de contenidos que la producción editorial presenta habitualmente de manera desmembrada. En definitiva, este libro constituye un manual para obtener una visión de conjunto de los ámbitos psicoterapéuticos ajenos a la intervención cognitivo-conductual.VÁLIDO A PARTIR CURSO 23/24.

Book Spanish Humor in Story and Essay

Download or read book Spanish Humor in Story and Essay written by Sylvanus Griswold Morley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: