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Strangers And Kinsmen - Portuguese Immigrants And The Spanish Caribbean, 14921650

by Brian Hamm

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 Within the global Spanish empire of the early modern era, the signifier portugués carried an expansive variety of associations. It could mean, depending on the observer, being either Spanish or foreign, Catholic or Jewish, useful or deleterious, loyal or treasonous. In Strangers and Kinsmen, historian Brian Hamm argues that discursive debates about what it meant to be Portuguese, to which Spaniards and Portuguese alike contributed, opened a wide range of Lusitanian potentialities that could either accelerate or hinder Portuguese integration within the Spanish Atlantic world. As a result, uncertainty followed Portuguese immigrants across the Atlantic and plagued Spanish officials who had to decide how to respond to an ever-increasing number of Portuguese arrivals. To find convincing answers, as Hamm shows, the Portuguese and Spanish looked to public behavior and personal reputation. The most convincing proof of Portuguese loyalty, piety, and utility came from consistent performances of virtuous actions by the Portuguese themselves. At the same time, public behaviors deemed suspicious, heretical, or treasonous could have the opposite effect, confirming in the minds of Spanish observers that the Portuguese were dangerous foreigners, potentially engaged in conspiratorial activities, who should be excluded. Because of the interpretative significance placed on public patterns of behavior, Portuguese immigrants gained significant opportunities to negotiate a more secure and accepted place in colonial society. Strangers and Kinsmen recovers the complexity and heterogeneity of Lusitanian immigration to the early modern Spanish Indies. Prioritizing Portuguese immigrants frequently overlooked in previous studies, including pilots, soldiers, priests, and spies, Hamms detailed analysis expands scholarly understanding of the thousands of Portuguese who collectively strengthened and threatened Spanish imperialism from within one of the most geopolitically vital regions of the world.
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Lorca'S Experimental Theater - Breaking The Guardrails Of Convention

by Andrew A. Anderson

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 In this book, Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca's plays can be considered conventional, these four stand out for challenging theatrical conventions, thematically and technically.
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A Physician In The Age Of Liberal Reform - Ildefonso Martinez Y Fernandez And Medical Politics In Nineteenth-Century Spain

by Andrew W. Keitt

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 Spanish physicians constituted a crucial political force in the 19th century during the tumultuous process of nation-building that followed the War of Independence against the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. This book excavates the life and work of one such doctor, Ildefonso MartÃnez y FernÃ¡ndez.
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Uncivil Guard - Policing, Military Culture, And The Coming Of The Spanish Civil War

by Foster Chamberlin

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 In Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War, Foster Chamberlin evaluates the role of militarized police forces in the political violence of interwar Europe by tracing the evolution of one such group, Spain's Civil Guard, culminating in the country's turbulent Second Republic period of 1931-1936. As Chamberlin's analysis shows, political violence provided the main justification for the military coup attempt that began the Spanish Civil War, and the Civil Guard was the most violent institution in the country at that time. Discovering how this police force, which was supposed to maintain order, became a principal contributor to the violence of the republic proves key to understanding the origins of the Civil War. By tracing the institution's founding in the mid-nineteenth century, and moving through case studies of episodes of political violence involving the group, Chamberlin concludes that the Civil Guard had an organizational culture that made it prone to violent actions because of its cult of honor, its distance from the people it policed, and its almost entirely military training.
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Physician In The Age Of Liberal Reform - Ildefonso Martínez Y Fernández And Medical Politics In Nineteenth-Century Spain

by Andrew W. Keitt

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 Spanish physicians constituted a crucial political force in the 19th century during the tumultuous process of nation-building that followed the War of Independence against the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. This book excavates the life and work of one such doctor, Ildefonso MartÃnez y FernÃ¡ndez.
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Lorca'S Experimental Theater - Breaking The Guardrails Of Convention

by Andrew A. Anderson

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 In this book, Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca's plays can be considered conventional, these four stand out for challenging theatrical conventions, thematically and technically.
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Physician In The Age Of Liberal Reform - Ildefonso Martínez Y Fernández And Medical Politics In Nineteenth-Century Spain

by Andrew W. Keitt

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Spanish physicians constituted a crucial political force in the 19th century during the tumultuous process of nation-building that followed the War of Independence against the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. This book excavates the life and work of one such doctor, Ildefonso MartÃnez y FernÃ¡ndez.
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Lorca'S Experimental Theater - Breaking The Guardrails Of Convention

by Andrew A. Anderson

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 In this book, Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca's plays can be considered conventional, these four stand out for challenging theatrical conventions, thematically and technically.
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Luis Geronimo De Ore - The World Of An Andean Franciscan From The Frontiers To The Centers Of Power

by Alexandra Parma Cook e Noble David Cook

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 Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world. In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friar's life and the communities in which he circulated.
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Luis Geronimo De Ore - The World Of An Andean Franciscan From The Frontiers To The Centers Of Power

by Alexandra Parma Cook e Noble David Cook

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 Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world. In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friarâ€™s life and the communities in which he circulated.
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Luis Geronimo De Ore - The World Of An Andean Franciscan From The Frontiers To The Centers Of Power

by Alexandra Parma Cook e Noble David Cook

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 Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de Ore (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world. In the first full-length biography of Ore, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friarâ€™s life and the communities in which he circulated.
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Society Women And Enlightened Charity In Spain - The Junta De Damas De Honor Y Mérito, 1787-1823

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 In original essays drawn from a myriad of archival materials, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, founded in 1787 to administer charities and schools for impoverished women and children, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.
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The Dynamics Of Masculinity In Contemporary Spanish Culture

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 This volume addresses how the construction of masculinities is experiencing a structural transformation which goes beyond existing theory. This book amalgamates original close readings of texts, films, and television series, which have not been widely considered by critics, such as Sin tetas, no hay paraÃso and Ocho apellidos vasc
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Spanish Women Writers And Spain'S Civil War

by Maryellen ([email protected] Undeliverable. Oct 20 Case 01675427) Bieder e Roberta Johnson

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 While literature inspired by the Spanish Civil War has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of work in the same way that literature by men has been, and its unique features have not been examined. Addressing this lacuna in literary studies, this volume provides fresh perspectives on well-known
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Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz And The Gender Politics Of Knowledge In Colonial Mexico

by Stephanie Kirk

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 Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico analyzes a series of intellectual and cultural spheres in seventeenth-century Mexico-the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, education and classical learning, and publishing and printing-through the writings of the famous nun. Examining the masculine contours
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Policing Gender And Alicia Gimenez Bartlett'S Crime Fiction

by Nina L. Molinaro

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 Alicia GimÃ©nez Bartlettâ€™s popular crime series, organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector FermiÂn Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series in Spain of the last three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detecti
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Argentine Serialised Radio Drama In The Infamous Decade, 1930â€“1943 - Transmitting Nationhood

by Lauren Rea

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 In her study of key serialized radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. Grounded in archival work undertaken at the library of Argentores in Buenos Aires, Reaâ€™s book recovers the contributi
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Medical Cultures Of The Early Modern Spanish Empire

by John Slater, Jose Pardo-Tomas e Marialuz Lopez-Terrada

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 As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity and death came into contact and conflict. Old ideas took root in new soil, others were stamped out, and new cultures arose. This collection examines the dynamic context in which medical cultures circulated to propose new interpretations of the
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Masculine Virtue In Early Modern Spain

by Shifra Armon

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 Culling genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose-fiction, this study extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spainâ€™s fall from imperial power after 1640. Drawing on recent developments in gender theory, Masculine Virtue shows how the inception of courtiership at the Spa
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African Immigrants In Contemporary Spanish Texts - Crossing The Strait

by Debra Faszer-Mcmahon e Victoria L. Ketz

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 How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing novels, poetry, films, online forums, and other genres, the contributors shed light on Spainâ€™s racial and sexual boundaries and the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace. T
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Multiple Modernities - Carmen De Burgos, Author And Activist

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 This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgosâ€™s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgosâ€™s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgosâ€™s multi
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Latin American Technopoetics - Scientific Explorations In New Media

by Scott Weintraub

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 Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses.
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Making Of Juana Of Austria - Gender, Art, And Patronage In Early Modern Iberia

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 Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and sister to Philip II of Spain, offers an interdisciplinary study of the Habsburg princess that addresses her political, religious, and artistic dimensions. The volume’s contextual framework shows her sharing agency with other women of her dynastic family who governed in the sixteenth century and developed an outstanding reputation for promoting artists and works of art. The Making of Juana of Austria demonstrates how Juana’s role as a leading patron of the arts offered her a means of creating her own image, which she then promulgated through the objects she collected and her crowning architectural endeavor, the Monastery-Palace of the Descalzas Reales. Drawing on early modern literature, archival documents, and artworks, the essays in this volume delineate a new portrait of Juana of Austria. Contributors not only highlight her multiple facets—princess of Portugal, regent of Castile, and the only female Jesuit in history—but also show her as a discerning art patron and collector who pursued an active role of patronage, through which she constructed her own art collection and used it to articulate a visual statement of her lineage, power, and religious convictions. Her role as an art promoter culminated with the foundation of the Descalzas Reales and the works of art she collected and displayed within its walls. The Making of Juana of Austria offers a new perspective on female rule and patronage, exploring the achievements of a crucial figure in the history of art, court, and gender in early modern Europe.
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Society Women And Enlightened Charity In Spain - The Junta De Damas De Honor Y Mérito, 1787-1823

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 In original essays drawn from a myriad of archival materials, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, founded in 1787 to administer charities and schools for impoverished women and children, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.
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