Spain Beyond Myths
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Spain Beyond Myths
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Author : Carlos Alonso Zaldívar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Spain Beyond Myths written by Carlos Alonso Zaldívar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
Om det spanske samfund i 1990'erne i europæisk sammenhæng med et tilbageblik på årene fra 1977 til idag med afsnit om økonomi og teknologiens betydning for det moderne Spanien
Straits
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Author : Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
Straits written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand Magellan. The truth that Fernández-Armesto uncovers about Magellan’s life, his character, and the events of his ill-fated voyage offers up a stranger, darker, and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been celebrated for half a millennium. Magellan did not attempt––much less accomplish––a journey around the globe. In his lifetime he was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant, self-condemned to destruction, and dismissed as a failure. Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero and discloses the reality of the man, probing the passions and tensions that drove him to adventure and drew him to disaster. We see the mutations of his character: pride that became arrogance, daring that became recklessness, determination that became ruthlessness, romanticism that became irresponsibility, and superficial piety that became, in adversity, irrational exaltation. As the real Magellan emerges, so do his real ambitions, focused less on circumnavigating the world or cornering the global spice market than on exploiting Filipino gold. Straits is a study in failure and the paradox of Magellan’s career, showing that renown is not always a reflection of merit but often a gift and accident of circumstance.
Imagining Spain
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Imagining Spain written by Henry Kamen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
'Imagining Spain' is an analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. The text discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain were influenced by ideologies that continue to play a role in the formation of contemporary Spanish attitudes.
Spain Truth Behind The Myth
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Author : Frank Angel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07
Spain Truth Behind The Myth written by Frank Angel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Travel categories.
The most exciting frontier in space is not far and away. It is Planet Earth! There are multitudes of spaceships that have gathered in our skies to watch the progress of Planet Earth as her inhabitants crawl on their knees through their wars and the Atomic Age. Most of these spaceships are beyond the gravitational field of the Earth. They stand by and watch, but cannot interfere in our big and little wars. One night the author found herself aboard an enormous Mothership. It was the size of a city. She had concentrated her thoughts during the astral travel that we all do at the edge of sleep. However, she was able to bring the memories of her travels back to Earth. The people she met on board the Mothership were Extra-Terrestrials of the Nordic type, tall, slender, mostly blond, with blue or green eyes. They worked in various ways with those they called Earthlings. They helped those injured in the battles of Earth such as the Gulf War, or in one case, a gas explosion in the heart of Mexico City. Those badly injured people were beamed aboard the Mothership to be healed in an expeditious fashion, using technology not yet available on Earth. Jane made friends aboard the Mothership and one night she was invited to go aboard a "flying saucer" (they prefer to call it a scoutcraft). She was piloted out into space, and watched a ballet of scoutcraft performing to the music of the Nutcracker Suite. Later she spent time in a scoutcraft learning about their controls and then participated in a complex operation involving our solar system. Then she and other Earthlings were observers as diplomats from many galaxies gathered in this Mothership to hear briefings about Planet Earth. Life on a Mothership can be very exciting!
The Mirror Of Spain 1500 1700
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Author : J. N. Hillgarth
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2000
The Mirror Of Spain 1500 1700 written by J. N. Hillgarth and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Spanish national character imposed and exposed
Imperial Emotions
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Author : Javier Krauel
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-13
Imperial Emotions written by Javier Krauel and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
A ground-breaking work that considers myths of the Spanish empire from the perspective of cultural responses to its demise.
Lazy Improvident People
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Author : Ruth MacKay
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Lazy Improvident People written by Ruth MacKay and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with History categories.
Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before. Relying in part on late medieval and early modern political treatises about "vile and mechanical" labor, they claimed that previous generations of Spaniards had been indolent and backward. Through a close reading of the archival record, MacKay shows that such treatises and dramatic literature in no way reflected the actual lives of early modern artisans, who were neither particularly slothful nor untalented. On the contrary, they behaved as citizens, and their work was seen as dignified and essential to the common good. MacKay contends that the ilustrados' profound misreading of their own past created a propagandistic myth that has been internalized by subsequent intellectuals. MacKay's is thus a book about the notion of Spanish exceptionalism, the ways in which this notion developed, and the burden and skewed vision it has imposed on Spaniards and outsiders. "Lazy, Improvident People" will fascinate not only historians of early modern and modern Spain but all readers who are concerned with the process by which historical narratives are formed, reproduced, and given authority.
Franco
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Author : Antonio Cazorla Sánchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Franco written by Antonio Cazorla Sánchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
General Francisco Franco, also called the Caudillo, was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. His life has been examined in many previous biographies. However, most of these have been traditional, linear biographies that focus on Franco's military and political careers, neglecting the significance of who exactly Franco was for the millions of Spaniards over whom he ruled for almost forty years. In this new biography Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez looks at Franco from a fresh perspective, emphasizing the cultural and social over the political. Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco uses previously unknown archival sources to analyse how the dictator was portrayed by the propaganda machine, how the opposition tried to undermine his prestige, and what kind of opinions, rumours and myths people formed of him, and how all these changed over time. The author argues that the collective construction of Franco's image emerged from a context of material needs, the political traumas caused by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the complex cultural workings of a society in distress, political manipulation, and the lack of any meaningful public debate. Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco is a study of Franco's life as experienced and understood by ordinary people; by those who loved or admired him, by those who hated or disliked him, and more generally, by those who had no option but to accommodate their existence to his rule. The book has a significance that goes well beyond Spain, as Cazorla-Sanchez explores the all-too-common experience of what it is like to live under the deep shadow cast by an always officially praised, ever present, and long lasting dictator.
Myths And Legends Of Spain
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Author : Lewis Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-06-01
Myths And Legends Of Spain written by Lewis Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06-01 with Legends categories.
The Eve Of Spain
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Author : Patricia E. Grieve
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-03-03
The Eve Of Spain written by Patricia E. Grieve and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain’s founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country’s national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. In revenge, the count travels to North Africa and conspires with its Berber rulers to send an invading army into Spain. So begins the Muslim conquest and the end of Visigothic rule. A few years later, in Northern Spain, Pelayo initiates a Christian resistance and starts a new line of kings to which the present-day Spanish monarchy traces its roots. Patricia E. Grieve follows the evolution of this story from the Middle Ages into the modern era, as shifts in religious tolerance and cultural acceptance influenced its retelling. She explains how increasing anti-Semitism came to be woven into the tale during the Christian conquest of the peninsula—in the form of traitorous Jewish conspirators. In the sixteenth century, the tale was linked to the looming threat of the Ottoman Turks. The story continued to resonate through the Enlightenment and into modern historiography, revealing the complex interactions of racial and religious conflict and evolving ideas of women’s sexuality. In following the story of La Cava, Rodrigo, and Pelayo, Grieve explains how foundational myths and popular legends articulate struggles for national identity. She explores how myths are developed around few historical facts, how they come to be written into history, and how they are exploited politically, as in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 followed by that of the Moriscos in 1609. Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman’s sexuality.