Author: Javier Tusell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144434272X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a biography and political assessment of Francisco Franco Covers a number of pertinent topics, including fascism, isolationism, political opposition, economic development, decolonization, terrorism, foreign policy, and democracy Provides a context for understanding the continuing tensions between democracy and terrorism, including the effects of the 2004 Madrid Bombings
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Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The twin focus of this book is on the importance of the Spanish heritage on nation and state building in nineteenth-century Spanish-speaking Latin America, alongside processes of nation and state building in Spain and Latin America. Rather than concentrating purely on nationalism and national identity, the book explores the linkages that remained or were re-established between Spain and her former colonies; as has increasingly been recognised in recent decades, the nineteenth century world was marked by the rise of the modern nation state, but also by the development of new transnational connections, and this book accounts for these processes within a Hispanic context.
Author: Ulrike Schmieder
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364310345X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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For centuries social and economic relations within the Atlantic space were dominated by slavery and the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas. By the slowly and arduously achieved end of this trade, slave labour in the Americas was replaced in many cases by other forms of coerced labour of African Caribbean people or Indian, Chinese, African or European immigrants. This book focuses on the transformation of societies after the slave trade and slavery in a comparative intercontinental perspective. It combines micro- and macro-historical approaches and looks at the agency of slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, state officials, seamen and soldiers.
Author: Maria Thomas
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781845195465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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In Spain, the five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical workers who were frustrated by the Republic's practical inability to tackle the Church's vast power. On July 17/18, 1936, a right-wing military rebellion divided Spain geographically, provoking the radical fragmentation of power in the territory which remained under Republican authority. The coup marked the beginning of a conflict which developed into a full-scale civil war. Anticlerical protagonists, with the reconfigured structure of political opportunities working in their favor, participated in an unprecedented wave of iconoclasm and violence against the clergy. During the first six months of the conflict, innumerable religious buildings were destroyed and almost 7,000 religious personnel were killed. To date, scholarly interpretations of these violent acts were linked to irrationality, criminality, and primitiveness. However, the reasons for these outbursts are more complex and deep-rooted: Spanish popular anticlericalism was undergoing a radical process of reconfiguration during the first three decades of the 20th century. During a period of rapid social, cultural, and political change, anticlerical acts took on new - explicitly political - meanings, becoming both a catalyst and a symptom of social change. After July 17/18, 1936, anticlerical violence became a constructive force for many of its protagonists: an instrument with which to build a new society. This book explores the motives, mentalities, and collective identities of the groups involved in anticlericalism, during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War. It will be is essential reading for all those interested in 20th-century Spanish history.
Author: Juan Antonio Garcia Delgado
Publisher: Ramsés Ancira
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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History has judged President Benito Juárez and one of the conclusions is that he betrayed the pure liberals. Andrés Manuel López Obrador is inspired by the way Benito Juárez governed. Does that mean that he betrayed the left? After reading this book you will have elements to give a final verdict.
Author: Phern H.
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463315074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Amilkar es un personaje que desde corta edad demostró sus habilidades intelectuales las cuales le permitieron un conocimiento prematuro de las experiencias duras de la vida. La separación de su familia al ingresar al Seminario lo premio al adquirir un poco mas de conocimiento del aspecto religioso y moral. Muchos juegan con la religión y confunden el término al identificarlo como iglesia, decía. La religión inspira los valores humanos, la iglesia es la estructura jerárquica social que administra la manera de aplicar esos valores. Si la iglesia falla, la religión se corrompe. Por otro lado La universidad le enseno como aplicar esos valores en beneficio de la humanidad. Amilkar entendió que para aplicar los valores espirituales, es necesario alimentar el cuerpo y era precisamente ahí donde su país estaba en crisis. Esta segunda tarea, al igual que la carrera docente, le ensenaron a entender las causas y razones de las actitudes y conductas de los estudiantes a quienes ayudo sin más interés que el de sacarlos del abismo de la ignorancia y entregarlos a la sociedad para beneficio de la humanidad. Buscar las causas no fue difícil, se observaban por todos lados: hambre, desempleo, familia separadas, y miseria. Las soluciones implicaban la participación de las estructuras políticas y eso genero muertes sin razón, justificadas solo por la mentira y la barbarie. Amilkar se entrego a la búsqueda de soluciones pacificas y ello le llevo hasta el exilio.
Author: Marcia De La Caridad Lastre
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463334028
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Dice un refrán original y muy español que "lo escrito, escrito queda; las palabras, el viento se las lleva". He aquí que nace así mi afán y deseo de narrarles esta historia real y verdadera para todos los lectores. Es mi vida relatada con sus necesidades, prohibiciones, retención; llena de peligros, amistad, amor, humildad y solidaridad. Separada de mis hijos y mis seres queridos. Os invita a leer esta refugiada cubana que hoy vive en Miami. El haber logrado hacer esta novela de fácil lectura para todos, es un buen ejemplo de que "cuando se quiere, se puede". Me regocija, enorgullece y se agigantan cada vez más a mis rasgos, principios e ideas para fortalecerme cada día.
Author: Enrique Beltrán
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Author: Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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The historical record of the Rio Grande valley through much of the nineteenth century reveals well-documented violence fueled by racial hatred, national rivalries, lack of governmental authority, competition for resources, and an international border that offered refuge to lawless men. Less noted is the region’s other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement. Meeting here are the Anglo-Americans who came to the border region to trade, spread Christianity, and settle; Mexicans seeking opportunity in el norte; Native Americans who raided American and Mexican settlements alike for plunder and captives; and Europeans who crisscrossed the borderlands seeking new futures in a fluid frontier space. Historian Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders’ perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stakeholding, smuggling and theft and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice. Spanning the Anglo settlement of Texas in the 1830s, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas , the US-Mexican War, various Indian wars, the US Civil War, the French intervention into Mexico, and the final subjugation of borderlands Indians by the combined forces of the US and Mexican armies, this is a magisterial work that forever alters, complicates, and enriches borderlands history. Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
