Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Spain, 1970-1985
ISBN: 9781349458769 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship, combining a general evaluation of the phenomenon with intimate glances at the people who drove it forward. By vindicating the importance of democratic professionals it illuminates the Spanish transition to democracy from a new angle.
The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship, combining a general evaluation of ...
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196,31 zł |
Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824: Circulation, Resistance and Diversity
ISBN: 9781349458912 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.
Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examine...
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471,20 zł |
The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
ISBN: 9781349458820 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. I...
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471,20 zł |
Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power
ISBN: 9781349452644 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations programs - including the most popular national pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair - in a determined effort to remake the Spanish dictatorship's post-World War II reputation in the US.
A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations ...
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431,93 zł |
Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule
ISBN: 9781107121386 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reinterprets Southwestern history before the US-Mexican War through a case study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz and their adaptation to Hispanic rule.
This book reinterprets Southwestern history before the US-Mexican War through a case study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz and their adaptatio...
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215,97 zł |
Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
ISBN: 9780271076645 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos--divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing... Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This ... |
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481,93 zł |
Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
ISBN: 9781479843626 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address--or even fully recognize--the deep-seated hostility to black...
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fasc...
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133,77 zł |
De l'autre côté des nuages: De Caldetas à Poitiers: sur les pas de Mercedes
ISBN: 9782322077878 / Francuski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,91 zł |
Five Letters 1519-1526
ISBN: 9781138878112 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1928.
'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of the truly Elizabethan character that was Hernando Cortes.' Times Literary Supplement. Cortes's letters to the Emperor from Mexico are half-letters, half-despatches. The letters were all written between 1519 and 1526. Letter One: Despite the original never having been recovered, there is little doubt about the contents of this letter. The earliest discoveries of the mainland from 1517 onwards are outlined. Letter Two: Arguably... First published in 1928.
'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of ... |
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226,42 zł |
Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain
ISBN: 9781349535699 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines how the advent of foreign tourism profoundly influenced the regime's diplomatic and economic policies as early as 1945 and through the 1960s.
This study examines how the advent of foreign tourism profoundly influenced the regime's diplomatic and economic policies as early as 1945 and through...
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196,31 zł |
The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512
ISBN: 9781349464319 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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766,75 zł |
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic
ISBN: 9780008163419 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston's new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War. This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more. It has many protagonists but centres on three individuals. One, Dr Juan Negrin, the victim of what might be termed a conspiracy of fools, tried to prevent it. Two bore responsibility for what transpired. One of those, Julian Besteiro, was guilty of... Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston's new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined t... |
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73,86 zł |
Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain
ISBN: 9781349482795 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological.
This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumat...
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196,31 zł |
The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763
ISBN: 9781349472628 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history.
Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history o...
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196,31 zł |
Spanish Society After Franco: Regime Transition and the Welfare State
ISBN: 9781349397044 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analysis of contemporary social policy from the perspective of economic and political trends since the transition of democracy in the mid-1970s. The review of policy evolution is complemented by an examination of the critical impact of social change, particularly the decline of the power of the church, regional devolution, the gender dimension and social exclusion.
Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analys...
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196,31 zł |
Routledge Library Editions: International Islam
ISBN: 9781138289291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world. Spanning continents from Africa, to Asia, North America and Europe, and ranging from 19th century ethnographical studies to modern day historical research, these titles not only demonstrate the diversity within this global religion, but also how the study of Islam has changed over time. The titles in this set will be of interest to those studying the history of Islam as well as those fascinated by the study of religion and international communities... First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world. Spanning continent... |
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The Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion: German Aircraft in Action During the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: 9781473878914 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was called the Condor Legion.
This force made a significant contribution to General Franco's eventual victory and this included two experimental air units, known as VJ/88 and VB/88. The former's mission was to combat test the new monoplane fighters; the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Heinkel He 112. The latter group's task was to test the new twin-engine, retractable undercarriage bombers; the Heinkel He 111, the... At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force ...
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Cartas de Juan Sintierra
ISBN: 9781537772134 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Maria Blanco White (Sevilla, 11 de julio de 1775-Liverpool, 20 de mayo de 1841), de nombre real Jose Maria Blanco Crespo, fue un escritor, pensador, teologo, periodista y sacerdote catolico espanol y uno de los tres grandes heterodoxos conversos al protestantismo espanoles del siglo XIX segun Marcelino Menendez Pelayo junto a Luis de Usoz y Rio y Juan Calderon, hermano mayor del militar Fernando Blanco-White (1786-1849)."
Jose Maria Blanco White (Sevilla, 11 de julio de 1775-Liverpool, 20 de mayo de 1841), de nombre real Jose Maria Blanco Crespo, fue un escritor, pensad...
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45,19 zł |
The Village World of Early Medieval Northern Spain: Local Community and the Land Market
ISBN: 9780861933440 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early eighth century, the Muslim general Tariq ibn Ziyad led his forces across the Straits of Gibraltar and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula. However, alongside the flourishing kingdom of al-Andalus, the small Christian realm of Asturias-Leon endured in the northern mountains. This book charts the social, economic and political development of Asturias-Leon from the Islamic conquest to 1031. Using a forensic comparative method, which examines the abundant charter material from two regions of northern Spain - the Liebana valley in Cantabria, and the Celanova region of southern...
In the early eighth century, the Muslim general Tariq ibn Ziyad led his forces across the Straits of Gibraltar and conquered most of the Iberian Penin...
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386,03 zł |
Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960-1975
ISBN: 9781487501082 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Confessional Cinema, Jorge P?rez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. P?rez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain's modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, -nun films, - which... In Confessional Cinema, Jorge P?rez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Fra... |
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298,54 zł |