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Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century, as well as the first foreign correspondent for the Spanish press to be based in London. This book argues for the importance that his relationship with England had on both his intellectual trajectory and on the culture and politics ...
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Against the normative proto-Mexican and criollista reading of Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud positions Bernardo de Balbuenas work in an Atlantic context and hence interprets it as a political assertion of the natural right of peninsular émigrés to rule New Spain. The book offers an updated biography of Balbuena that reminds us ...
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Bailey, Matthew; Giles, Ryan D
The legend of Charlemagne is a strong motif in the literature of medieval and early modern Spain. The essays in this volume consider the narration of both the historical and imaginary events across differentgenres; how the figure of Charlemagne evolved and diversified; and the importance and influence of the Charlemagne legends in literary and historical ...
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As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both individual and national). Widely recognised and translated during his lifetime, he was an inescapably ...
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In 1345 Henry of Lancaster, earl of Derby - the most prominent soldier, diplomat and statesman of his generation - led an English royal army to the duchy of Aquitaine and inflicted two devastating defeats on the French royal forces. These were the first decisive victories for either side, and swung the course of the ...
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In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose members included Salvador Dalí, García Lorca, and Rafael Alberti. Together, they often visited the ancient Spanish capital to stroll through its labyrinthine streets. But these excursions on the part of Buñuel and the Brotherhood were more than simple episodes of ...
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Contributors explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. This book focuses on historical actors in territories not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked with it, raising the question of conscience, orawareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the ...
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Charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after the end of Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers efforts to retain political legitimacy. Drawing on the once closed archives of the Soviet Union, Kyiv as Regime City shows how failed attempts to conscript a labor force and begin the citys reconstruction led the Stalin regime ...
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An intellectual and cultural history of political culture in Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. This book draws out the dynamism of therhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the ...
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Leo Strauss is one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, known primarily for reviving the study of classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that tradition of thought largely lost to the West because he did not emphasize its metaphysical teachings but its teaching on politics. What brought Strauss to his reading of the ...
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Badia, Lola; Santanach, Joan; Soler, Albert
Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin and vernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. ...
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Offers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia. The essays in The Utopia of Terror provide new perspectives on the relationship between the politics of construction and destruction in the wartime Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) ruled by the fascist Ustasha movement. Bringing together ...
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Based on extensive original research, this book reveals how trade worked in early ninteenth-century Southeast Asia through the study of one merchant and his wide-ranging network: Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish 'adventurer (his word) who established an enduring business in Batavia around 1816. The book demonstrates that Southeast Asian maritime trade was just as important ...
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For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of ...
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This book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade with Spains American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern Europe. Drawing on ...
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Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoas literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Itseighteen short essays explore the influence on Pessoas thinking of such writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative dialogues with figures ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84383-718-3
EAN 9781843837183
Why 1853? For many leading composers this year brought far-reaching changes to their lives: Brahms emerged from obscurity to celebrity, Schumann ceased to be an active composer, and both Berlioz and Wagner became active again after long silences. By limiting the perspective to a single year yet extending it to a group of musicians, their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 54,45 €
ISBN 978-0-85991-925-8
EAN 9780859919258
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 793 páginas
PVP: 102,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84383-525-7
EAN 9781843835257
This first of the classic two-volume survey of Handel's operas was first published in 1987 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 1995. Now it is brought back into print in a year which has seen numerous productions and recordings of the operas and which marks the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Their revival ...
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