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Book The Pillars of Hercules  Or  A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848

Download or read book The Pillars of Hercules Or A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848 written by David Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bizet s Carmen Uncovered

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  • Author : Richard Langham Smith
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 1783275251
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Bizet s Carmen Uncovered written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged.

Book Ambivalent Embrace

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  • Author : Rodrigo Botero
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2000-10-30
  • ISBN : 0313001308
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Ambivalent Embrace written by Rodrigo Botero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two centuries interaction between Spain and the United States was characterized by cultural and political differences, mutually perceived conflicts of national interest, and an asymmetry of power. Botero identifies the period from 1945 to 1953 as a watershed in relations, as the two countries moved from a hostile posture towards a friendly rapprochement. He shows why, in spite of political differences, mutual distrust, and reciprocal grievances, both governments found it in their best interest to reach an agreement on the issue of European defense. This study documents, for the first time, the extraordinary lengths to which the Franco regime was prepared to go to improve its relations with the United States. Beginning with the Spanish monarchy's decision to assist the thirteen colonies in their struggle for independence, Botero examines treaty negotiations in 1795 and 1821 that involved Spain's territorial possessions in North America. He then looks at how friction over events in Cuba culminated in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Several decades of mutual disengagement followed until the two nations again clashed over the early pro-Axis sympathy of the Franco regime. The fear of Soviet aggression would finally unite the two in the post-World War II era with a bilateral agreement to establish military bases in Spain as part of strategic arrangements to defend Western Europe.

Book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore  Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Bow s Review

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  • Author : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 756 pages

Download or read book De Bow s Review written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mikado s Empire

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  • Author : Griffis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1876
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 654 pages

Download or read book The Mikado s Empire written by Griffis and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Between History and Romance

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  • Author : Gifra-Adroher, Pere
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780838638484
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Between History and Romance written by Gifra-Adroher, Pere and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It demonstrates that, even though Washington Irving's sojourn in Spain from 1826 until 1829 marked a distinct shift in the literary commodification of things Spanish, the transition from an enlightened to a romantic representation of Spain was a process triggered by a group of writers who produced Spanish travel narratives of lasting influence.

Book De Bow s Review of the Southern and Western States

Download or read book De Bow s Review of the Southern and Western States written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commercial Review of the South and West

Download or read book Commercial Review of the South and West written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Hemingway s Death in the Afternoon

Download or read book A Companion to Hemingway s Death in the Afternoon written by Miriam B. Mandel and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim for his short stories and novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he now risked his career by switching from fiction to nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from exotic and romantic settings to the tough world of theSpanish bullring, a world that might seem frightening and even repellant to those who do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed, a state of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new ground by applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough, balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with: the composition, reception, and sources of Death in the Afternoon; cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and paratextual matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience, and the literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors to the volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype of Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate that Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular national art, discusses matters of universal concern. Contributors: Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony Brand, Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon. MiriamB. Mandel teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv University.

Book D  Appleton   Co s New Catalogue of American   English Books

Download or read book D Appleton Co s New Catalogue of American English Books written by D. Appleton & co/1New York and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogues

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  • Author : D. Appleton and Company
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Catalogues written by D. Appleton and Company and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper   Brothers  Descriptive List of Their Publications

Download or read book Harper Brothers Descriptive List of Their Publications written by Harper and brothers and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Probata

Download or read book Bibliotheca Probata written by Daniel Dana, jr. (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the New York Free Academy

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the New York Free Academy written by Free Academy (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: