Download or read book Making Spain Home written by Anthony Russo and published by Mamba Press. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you dreaming of a life in Spain, filled with vibrant culture, stunning landscapes, and the warmth of the Mediterranean sun? Look no further than "Making Spain Home: A Practical Guide to Relocating and Thriving in Spain." This comprehensive guide is your essential companion on the journey to turning your Spanish dreams into reality. Whether you're considering a short-term relocation, planning to retire in Spain, or making a permanent move, this book is your roadmap to success. Discover the chapters that make up this indispensable resource: Dreaming of Spain: Begin your journey with visions of the Spanish lifestyle and immerse yourself in the allure of Spain's diverse regions. The Practicalities of Relocation: Navigate the intricacies of visas, permits, and legal requirements, ensuring a smooth transition to your new life. Embracing Spanish Culture: Delve into the heart of Spain's rich culture, customs, and traditions to forge meaningful connections with the locals. Employment and Education: Find valuable advice on securing employment or education opportunities for yourself or your family members. Settling In and Building a Community: Create your haven in Spain by finding the perfect accommodation, setting up utilities, and becoming an active part of your local community. Navigating Everyday Life: Master the art of daily life in Spain, from healthcare and finance to transportation and dining customs. Exploring Spain: Embark on a journey through Spain's captivating regions, uncovering the beauty and treasures that await you. The Future and Beyond: Plan for the long term with guidance on legal residency, citizenship, financial considerations, and community engagement. "Making Spain Home" isn't just a guidebook; it's your trusted companion, offering practical tips, cultural insights, and invaluable resources to empower your journey. Authored by experts and seasoned expatriates, this book is a testament to the belief that Spain can become not just a destination, but your cherished home. Whether you're drawn to the cosmopolitan energy of Madrid, the seaside tranquility of Valencia, or the cultural richness of Andalusia, "Making Spain Home" will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to thrive in your new Spanish life. Your Spanish adventure awaits. Let "Making Spain Home" be your guide to transforming your dream into a vibrant, fulfilling reality.
Download or read book The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession written by Kirsty Hooper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain’s place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This empirically-grounded cultural and material history reveals how, for almost three decades, Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain’s newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before. It shows how the expansion of education, travel, and publishing created unprecedented opportunities for ordinary British people not only to visit the country, but to see the work of Spanish and Spanish-inspired artists and performers in British galleries, theatres and exhibitions. It explores the work of novelists, travel writers, journalists, scholars, artists and performers to argue that the Edwardian knowledge of Spain was more extensive, more complex and more diverse than we have imagined.
Download or read book Buying a Property in Spain written by Harry King and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to buying a property in Spain offers first-hand advice on where to stay, dealing with estate agents and builders and the types of properties available. It covers building your own home, renovating a ruin and renting a cosy cottage. CONTENTS: Introducing Spain - narrowing the options - making a start - what and where to buy - the people involved - understanding the legal documents for a new property - money matters - before you go - linking it all together - buying other properties - timeshare and rental - cutting red tape - dealing with your finances - learning about culture - living life to the full - avoiding failure ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Illustrations: Maps, plans
Download or read book State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain Volume 1 written by Miguel A. Centeno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
Download or read book Making Peace with Spain written by Whitelaw Reid and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a “leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party’s politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era’s culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of his part in the Peace of Paris is the most significant and most interesting. It not only reveals the workings of his mind and of the peace conference, but also suggests the complex currents that carried his country into the realities of world power in the twentieth century.” In editing Reid’s diary, Morgan used much material pertinent to the Paris Peace Conference of 1898, employed here for the first time. This material is a rich assortment of archival matter: the Reid Papers, the John Hay Papers, the John Bassett Moore Papers, and the McKinley Papers, in the Library of Congress; the Peace Commission records, in the National Archives; and unpublished materials in the Central Files of the Department of State. Whitelaw Reid, as a war correspondent during the Civil War, as clerk of the House Military Affairs Committee, and later as a successor to Horace Greeley on the Tribune, gained access to the leaders of his times and insight into their actions. In 1889 he was appointed U.S. Minister to France by Harrison, and in 1892 he had the dubious honor of being chosen as Harrison’s running mate on the losing presidential ticket. An influential friend and supporter of President McKinley and an occasional advisor to him, Reid was no stranger to politics and to international diplomacy when McKinley appointed him to the Peace Commission that wrote the treaty concluding the Spanish-American War. As a matter of fact, Reid’s opinion reflected the administration’s attitude of expansionism, the policy of Manifest Destiny—or “imperialism,” as it was later called. Reid’s diary records the details of the sessions of the Joint Peace Commission of Paris from September through a large part of December of 1898. His day-by-day entries reveal the complexity of issues to be considered, the tactics of both the Spanish and the American Commissions in attempting to gain advantage for their respective governments, the interplay of the personalities of the once-proud Spaniards and the brash Americans, the political objectives influencing the points of view of the various members, and the maneuverings that brought about the final resolution of debated issues.
Download or read book Making Democratic Citizens in Spain written by P. Radcliff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state and made the building blocks of a future democratic citizenship
Download or read book Making Out In Spanish written by Celia Espelleta and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken. Te adoro! Cuando puedo volver a verte?--(I adore you! When can I see you next time?) Answer this correctly in Spanish, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Spanish classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios, but chances are while in a Spanish speaking country you will spend a lot more time trying to make new friends or start new romances--something you may not be prepared for. If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to Latin America or Spain and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use Spanish phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Spanish has been carefully designed to act as a guide to modern colloquial Spanish for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the sort of catchy Spanish expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. As well as the Latin script, each expression is now given in phonetics, making pronunciation a breeze. (For example, Buana idea! is also written as BWE-na ee-DE-a!). This Spanish phrasebook includes: Information about Latin American Spanish vs. Spain Spanish as well as regional dialects. A guide to pronouncing Spanish words correctly. Explanations of basic Spanish grammar, such as question forms, male vs. female, formal vs. informal and vowel stress. Complete Spanish translations including phonetic script. Useful and interesting notes on Spanish language and culture. Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other phrasebooks. Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian, Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More Making Out in Japanese.
Download or read book Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World written by Kristie Flannery and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers in the Southeast Asian archipelago to wage war against waves of pirates, including massive Chinese pirate fleets, Muslim pirates from the Sulu Zone, and even the British fleet that attacked at the height of the Seven Years’ War. Anti-piracy alliances made Spanish colonial rule resilient to both external shocks and internal revolts that shook the colony to its core. This revisionist study complicates the assumption that empire was imposed on Filipinos with brute force alone. Rather, anti-piracy also shaped the politics of belonging in the colonial Philippines. Real and imagined pirate threats especially influenced the fate and fortunes of Chinese migrants in the islands. They triggered genocidal massacres of the Chinese at some junctures, and at others facilitated Chinese integration into the Catholic nation as loyal vassals. Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World demonstrates that piracy is key to explaining the surprising longevity of Spain’s Asian empire, which, unlike Spanish colonial rule in the Americas, survived the Age of Revolutions and endured almost to the end of the nineteenth century. Moreover, it offers important new insight into piracy’s impact on the trajectory of globalization and European imperial expansion in maritime Asia.
Download or read book Help Make a Home for a Spanish Child written by North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Renewable Electricity Policy in Spain written by John S. Duffield and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain. It provides the first comprehensive political analysis of how and why successive Spanish governments have increased or reduced support for renewable power, especially wind and solar. In particular, it identifies the key influences that have been brought to bear on decision making by the core executive as it has sought to determine the appropriate role of renewable sources in the country’s electricity mix. Following the introduction, four chapters chart the dramatic rise, fall, and, most recently, renewed rise in support for utility-scale renewable power, from the early 1980s to the present. Another chapter details the decade-long political struggle over the regulation of small-scale distributed renewable electricity generation. The penultimate chapter explores the future prospects for renewable power in Spain, and the final chapter offers an overarching explanation of the patterns of policy outcomes observed.
Download or read book Judeo Spanish and the Making of a Community written by Bryan Kirschen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community brings together scholars and activists from around the world, all of whom have participated in and presented original research at the annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposia. This collection addresses a number of linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim in different lands from the fifteenth century to the present day. Essays in this volume reveal how Sephardim from various parts of the world – Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco, and the United States – culturally and linguistically position themselves among each other, among other Jews, and among their non-Jewish co-regionalists. Contributors explore how the rich history of the Sephardim has allowed for the development, maintenance, endangerment, and even revitalization of the Judeo-Spanish language(s).
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Download or read book Spain a civilization that knows how to make itself heard written by Philippe Quest and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain is a country that every year, by its culture, its history, its gastronomy, its geography, its opportunities, its rhythm of life "Spanish style" attracts millions of visitors from all over the world! However, Spain is also a country rich in anecdotes, stories and references that you should know whether you are preparing for an exam, a trip or simply want to learn more about Spanish civilization. Discover now, a unique work, mixing anecdotes and academic references.
Download or read book Isabel of Castile and the making of the Spanish nation 1451 1504 written by Ierne L. Plunket and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isabel of Castile and the Making of the Spanish Nation, 1451-1504 by Ierne L. Plunket offers a detailed and insightful exploration of the life and legacy of one of Spain’s most influential monarchs. This book provides a comprehensive examination of Queen Isabel’s pivotal role in shaping the Spanish nation during a transformative period in its history. Plunket’s meticulous research delves into Isabel’s reign, highlighting her strategic marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon, the consolidation of their realms, and the significant political and cultural changes that ensued. The narrative covers key events such as the Reconquista, the unification of Spain, and the sponsorship of Christopher Columbus’s voyages, which marked the beginning of Spain’s global empire. Isabel of Castile is celebrated for its thorough analysis and rich historical context, offering readers a nuanced understanding of Isabel’s impact on Spanish history and her enduring influence on the development of the Spanish nation. Plunket’s engaging prose and scholarly approach bring to life the complexities of Isabel’s reign and her significant contributions to the formation of modern Spain. For those interested in the history of Spain and the powerful figures who shaped it, Isabel of Castile and the Making of the Spanish Nation provides a compelling portrait of a queen whose legacy is deeply intertwined with the history of a nation.
Download or read book How to Make a New Spain written by Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To address issues of wealth, it will be necessary to study the kinds of coin and other media of exchange that were in use in sixteenth-century Mexico City. The people compiling the probate inventories that form the basis of this study measured and recorded the value of each item in material terms: the amount of gold that would be necessary to purchase a person's belongings. They translated each decedent's net worth into coin in official documents, with the intent of communicating and sending the value of the decedent's belongings to his or her family in Spain. Calculating the value of a decedent's belongings as gold also helped the church and the Spanish crown collect some revenue from a person's estate, through donations to the church and taxes to the king"--
Download or read book Making Modern Spain written by Azariah Alfante and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Böhl de Faber (Fernán Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, and José María de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain’s liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.
Download or read book Garden Home Builder written by William Tyler Miller and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
