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How the Spanish empire was built : a 400 year history
\"The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain's engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain
How music embodies and contributes to historical and
contemporary nationalism
What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the
relationship between national and regional identity building? How
do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state
and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and
regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore
these and other essential questions from a range of
interdisciplinary vantage points. The essays pay particular
attention to the role played by the state in deciding what music
represents Portuguese or Spanish identity. Case studies examine
many aspects of the issue, including local recording networks,
so-called national style in popular music, and music's role in both
political protest and heritage regimes. Topics include the ways the
Salazar and Franco regimes adapted music to align with their
ideological agendas; the twenty-first-century impact of UNESCO's
Intangible Cultural Heritage program on some of Portugal and
Spain's expressive practices; and the tensions that arise between
institutions and community in creating and recreating meanings and
identity around music.
Contributors: Ricardo Andrade, Vera Marques
Alves, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero,
José Hugo Pires Castro, Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Fernán del Val,
Héctor Fouce, Diego García-Peinazo, Leonor Losa, Josep Martí, Eva
Moreda Rodríguez, Pedro Russo Moreira, Cristina Cruces Roldán, and
Igor Contreras Zubillaga
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A nation upon the ocean sea : Portugal's Atlantic diaspora and the crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640
With the opening of sea routes in the 15th century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early 17th century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were used to bankroll the Spanish Empire. This book traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late 15th century to its fragmentation in the middle of the 17th, and situates it in relation to the parallel expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book reconstitutes the rich inner life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity. We are introduced to mariners and traders in such disparate places as Lima, Seville and Amsterdam, their day-to-day interactions and understandings, their houses and domestic relations, private reflections and public arguments. This account reveals how the Portuguese Nation created a cohesive and meaningful community despite the mobility and dispersion of its members; how its forms of sociability fed into the development of robust transatlantic commercial networks; and how the day-to-day experience of trade was translated into the sphere of Spanish imperial politics as merchants of the Portuguese Nation took up the pen to advocate a program of commercial reform based on religious-ethnic toleration and the liberalization of trade.
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Democracy Here and Now
In Spain, on May 15, 2011, a movement against austerity measures began. In a time when representative democracies were under threat, 15M came to life as a virtuous and democratic response to the slide into far-right populism and authoritarianism. More than a social movement, 15M became a mode of being with transformative, democratizing potential.
In Democracy Here and Now , Pablo Ouziel offers a grounded analysis of 15M. At the time of the movement and during the ensuing encampments, Ouziel travelled extensively, speaking to participants, and keeping an ongoing record of his conversations. Presenting an original participatory mode of research, the book reveals six types of intersubjective, joining hands relationships that 15M has brought into being and works to carry on in creative ways. The book shows how the movement’s way of being and temporality persists in Spain following the square occupations, while 15M citizens continue to learn and move forward in less perceptible ways.
Democracy Here and Now sheds light on a deeply relational, intersectional, and eco-social mode of democracy, and shows how 15M’s ongoing democratization practices are exemplary of similar grassroots movements around the world, broadening our understandings of what it means to be democratic in the here and now.
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Convivencia : urban space and migration in a small Catalan town
\"This book analyzes the local-global transformation of migration and societies in a small Catalan town through a multi-scalar ethnography, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally, the socio-political responses to these changes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Constitutional culture, independence, and rights : insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia
In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights , Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term constitutional culture to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations that govern the collective life within a jurisdiction. Significantly, these shared norms have both legal and social elements, including matters as diverse as standards of parenting, the modus operandi of police officers, and taboos around sexuality. Using Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia as case studies, the book delves into what these constitutional battles mean for the rights, identity, and needs of everyday people, and it powerfully demonstrates why the hypothetical future independence of these regions would have far-reaching practical consequences, beyond the realm of political structures and academic theory.
The book does not present a magic bullet to resolve debates around independence – this is not its purpose, and the text in fact demonstrates why there is no objectively optimal approach in any or all contexts. Instead, it seeks to shed light on aspects of these situations often overlooked in discussions around the fate of nations, and it addresses what the consequences of constitutional paradigm shifts might be for individuals. Constitutional culture is a complex web of interconnected understandings and behaviours, and the vibrations from shaking or cutting a fundamental strand will be felt throughout the structure.
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Reconquest and crusade in medieval Spain
\"This engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula.\"--Historian.
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