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A partir de lo que se intercambia en las Indias desde los primeros momentos de la conquista -objetos, credos, lenguas, gramáticas, materias, políticas y dominios-, el presente estudio considera la traduccion desde un amplio espectro como forma privilegiada de la transferencia, pero tambien como un sistema unico de deteccion de diferencia entre el Nuevo y el Viejo Mundo. Las imposiciones, robos, prestamos o contactos de todo tipo que este imprime en aquel -linguisticos, religiosos, ideologicos, cartograficos- no se saldan impunemente para el equilibrio del antiguo orden. Las alteraciones son mutuas y con el expolio operado se producen cambios que tambalean la operacion sustentadora del sistema imperante, lo cual implica comprender tambien la traduccion como transporte, traslado bilateral de mercancia: ¿que pasa cuando los idolos americanos y las ritualidades que los acompañaban llegan a Europa? Y a la inversa ¿que ocurre cuando un simbolo de la fe imperial cae en manos de la resistencia creyente indigena?Utilizando un corpus de textos que encajarian en la consideracion de "literatura menor" que Deleuze inaugurara o de "escritura pastoral" en su acepcion mas historica -diccionarios, vocabularios, tesauros y manuales para el aprendizaje de las voces nativas, sermonarios, confesionarios, cartillas y catecismos de la doctrina cristiana, pero tambien repertorios, mapas, inventarios, emblemas, dialogos catequizadores, escapularios y estampas-, se analizan los primeros instantes del encuentro cultural americano, de la incomprension que a el parece subyacer, a traves o mediante esta vastedad de la operacion traductora: operacion entre idiomas, entre religiones, usos, relatos, procesos comunicativos, objetualidades, posesiones, ritos. Mediacion, por tanto, entre imagen y letra, entre oralidad y escritura, entre oeste y este, entre conquistador y conquistado, y traduccion como gestion interna a la conquista misma en tanto modo para encarar la nueva realidad que de ella emerge.

Este volumen aborda el funcionamiento del poder en la Monarquía de España en los siglos XVI y XVII desde la perspectiva de las conexiones entre sus diversos reinos, dotados cada uno de su propio marco politico-constitucional, y una nobleza que comparte una identidad sustancial, aun cuando adopte comportamientos especificos derivados de las particularidades de esos territorios. Por eso nos referimos a la nobleza, en singular, y a los reinos, en plural. Desde este punto de partida, los estudios reunidos comparten la intencion de "hacer anatomia del poder", es decir, analizar el papel desempeñado por la nobleza en la vida politica y cultural de los reinos y, a la vez, estudiar los modos en que esa nobleza se inserto, y tambien experimento conflictos, en el espacio comun creado por la casa de Austria. Prestamos atencion a España e Italia, dado que ambos conjuntos politico-culturales, por larga tradicion, mantuvieron relaciones de todo signo y vinculacion geopolitica, configuraron el nucleo central de la Monarquia y, al mismo tiempo, crearon una comunidad nobiliaria de lazos muy estrechos.

Aunque el sueño español de expandirse hacia el norte de África ya era muy antiguo y en 1504 Isabel la Católica exhortaba en su testamento a sus descendientes a "que no cesen de la conquista de África", con el descubrimiento de las Indias este "otro colonialismo" pronto se abandono a favor del proyecto mas prometedor de los nuevos territorios del continente americano. En consecuencia, el estrecho entre España y Africa se convierte, durante tres siglos, en una frontera "olvidada", hasta que a finales del siglo XVIII y durante el XIX el interes colonial español apunta nuevamente a Africa, bajo condiciones geopoliticas diferentes a las de la temprana Edad Moderna.Este volumen aborda el tema de la representacion de Africa del Norte desde la perspectiva de los estudios culturales, poniendo especial enfasis en la cuestion del (neo)colonialismo. A traves de interpretaciones ejemplares de una gran variedad de textos literarios, historiograficos y audiovisuales se ofrece una profunda reconsideracion de la compleja relacion historico-cultural entre España y Africa desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta el presente inmediato. Se estudian autores como Blanco White, Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, Benito Perez Galdos, Ramon J. Sender o Tomas Borras.

Examina la evolución de la orden de San Camilo en la capital peruana entre los siglos XVIII y XIX. Luego de situar su establecimiento inicial en Barrios Altos, el autor estudia la implantación agrícola de la orden y sus haciendas azucareras de Cañete, su exito y expansion, pero tambien su crisis interna y su declive ulterior. Al iniciarse la Republica, la institucion de los padres cruciferos sera suprimida dos veces y dos veces restablecida, en el contexto de la inestable politica del Estado de cara al clero y la Iglesia peruanos. Estamos ante una investigacion historica original, basada en documentacion de archivos, que sugiere enfoques comparativos e invoca la realizacion de trabajos similares sobre otras instituciones.Gracias a sondeos previos y especialmente con la puesta a disposicion de los investigadores de nuevas masas documentales, es posible pensar que los conventos, monasterios y parroquias del Peru, contienen una riqueza archivistica de primer orden, cuya explotacion sistematica por los historiadores permitiria echar luces sobre la sociedad peruana, desde fines del Antiguo Regimen. Se puede deducir de ello la existencia de unos yacimientos documentales y de fuentes historicas que, a la imagen de la presencia de la Iglesia catolica en el Peru, tendrian un amplio alcance, esto es, societal, economico, financiero, institucional y religioso.

Este libro sobre censura y diálogo, o sobre el diálogo a la luz de la censura, explora de forma conjunta fenómenos relevantes de la historia cultural europea, desde la herejía al saber reservado. Nace de la confluencia de intereses de equipos dedicados de manera sostenida e independiente al estudio del genero dialogico en la Peninsula Iberica, y al analisis del pensamiento censorio y de las formas de vigilancia de la textualidad. La interseccion de estos dos campos de interes define un territorio apenas transitado por los historiadores de la literatura hispanica: del encuentro de los especialistas que participan en este volumen resulta una nueva perspectiva sobre las condiciones de escritura, lectura e interpretacion del corpus dialogico quinientista.

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagun and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural translator who reconceptualized the Nahua world according to his own Euro-Christian categorization of knowledge for evangelization purposes. Sahaguns so-called ethnographic method of data collection is discussed from the perspective of its reliance on confessional and inquisitorial techniques. Universal History of the Things of New Spain is also revisited as a doctrinal reference text that resembles classical and medieval encyclopaedias deployed by preachers for homiletic purposes, and which contains useful material for the confessors who administered the sacrament to Nahua penitents.

El lector tiene ante sí no una historia sino tres: la de los moriscos de Villarrubia, la del propio pueblo de Villarrubia desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XVIII y la de dos de sus condes, Diego de Silva y Mendoza y Rodrigo de Silva y Sarmiento. El estudio se completa con tres apendices que reunen documentos importantes sobre el desarrollo de las expulsiones. "El libro esta lleno de sorpresas, y contiene algunos descubrimientos sensacionales. [] Quedara para otros historiadores comparar sus hallazgos con los de Trevor Dadson. Pero este les ha desafiado ya con un libro voluminoso y ricamente documentado que representa un hito en los estudios moriscos. Tambien es un libro con implicaciones contemporaneas de gran significacion, pues demuestra como aun en una epoca y una sociedad celebradas por su intolerancia, una comunidad al menos mostro que era posible para gente de distintas razas vivir juntos en armonia."

La Trilogía de la Liberación es la crónica definitiva sobre la liberación de Europa en la segunda guerra mundial. Un ejército al amanecer. La guerra en el norte de África, 1942-1943 -ganadora del premio Pulitzer- , El dia de la batalla.La guerra en Sicilia y en Italia, 1943-1944 y Los cañones del atardecer. La guerra en Europa, 1944-1945 describen las arduas batallas que marcaron la victoria de los Aliados en la segunda guerra mundial. Rick Atkinson narra con exquisito detalle estas batallas y da vida a un importante elenco de personajes.

Documento etnográfico y político, económico y cultural de primer orden, esta obra es un arsenal precioso de datos para el estudio de la historia de los pueblos de la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Es cierto que Mommsen hacia hablar a las piedras. Y ellas le entregaron, en gran parte, el secreto de la intensa vida provincial, oculto hasta entonces bajo la superestructura de una tradicion basada en los escritos centralistas de los historiadores y los escritores romanos. Sus capitulos mejor logrados, con ser todos magistrales, son aquellos que versan sobre las partes del imperio, como los paises danubianos y las tierras del Asia menor, cuyas inscripciones estudio y edito dentro del gran Corpus inscriptionum.

In the 1920s, Adolf Rosenberger was one of Germanys best known racing car drivers. He was also co-founder and managing director of a design firm that had recently been launched by Ferdinand Porsche, and it was his job to ensure financing for the design firm a firm that provided important impetus during this time for technical innovation and racing car construction. When the firm fell into difficulties during the global business crisis, he ended up stepping away from his management role in the company, but remained active as partner and "foreign representative". The Jewish Rosenberger was however unable to escape the increasing persecution by the Nazis: in 1935 he lost his shares in the company and landed for a time in a concentration camp. After emigrating in 1938 he would go on over the following decades to develop a precarious new existence in the USA. Compensation and restitution proceedings that he initiated against the company would end up severing any remaining ties with the now internationally renowned sports car manufacturer. This book, drawing on documents that have remained unpublished until now, frames and analyses the exceptional and moving biography of Adolf Rosenberger.

Este livro mostra a importância da pomba gira Maria Padilha no imaginário espiritual brasileiro e revela quem é Maria Padilha de fato e a história de María de Padilla (1334-1361), como a mulher se to

More Than Just The Climb covers Martyn Boulds 60 years in the Cayman Islands as he helped it develop the islands time forgot with a population of 10,000 into a thriving financial centre with a population of 80,000 from 130 different countries. He was the youngest developer of town houses as well as developing the Great House luxury condominium on Seven Mile Beach, introduced innovations from squash to cable TV. Life is of course a journey and not a destination, and Martyn Boulds autobiography includes many lessons from the ups and downs of lifes twists of fate. The authors journeys include visiting 120 countries with his wife Vivian, meeting fascinating people along the way and climbing many figurative and literal mountains, including Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in his 70s. He describes in detail his journey through lifes successes and challenges, closely coupled with his cultural development journey of the talented Cayman society.

European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts.In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soil as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing, memorialization, "decolonization" and attempts to come to terms with the past ("Vergangenheitsbewaltigung").

The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme.Includes:- Andrea Low and Kim Wunschman: Film and the Reordering of City Space in Nazi Germany: The Demolition of the Munich Main Synagogue- Michal Frankl: Cast out of Civilized Society. Refugees in the No Man`s Land between Slovakia and Hungary in 1938- Beate Meyer: Foreign Jews in Nazi Germany - Protected or Persecuted? Preliminary Results of a New Study- Dominique Schroder: Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps?- Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hordler, and Christoph Kreutzmuller: A Paradoxical Panorama: Aspects of Space in Lili Jacobs Album- Irina Rebrova: Jewish Accounts of Soviet Evacuation to the North Caucasus- Malena Chinski: A New Address for Holocaust Research: Michel Borwicz and Joseph Wulf in Paris, 19471951- Anna Engelking: "Our own traitor" as the Focal Point of Belarusian Folk Narrative on Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust- Hannah Wilson: The Memoryscape of Sobibor Death Camp: Commemoration and MaterialityDer Band erscheint vollstandig in englischer Sprache.

Very little is known about the battle of Carham, fought between the Scots and Northumbrians in 1018. The leaders were probably Máel Coluim II, king of Scotland, and Uhtred of Bamburgh, earl or ealdorman in Northumbria. The outcome of the battle was a victory for the Scots, seen by some as a pivotal event in the expansion of the Scottish kingdom, the demise of Northumbria and the Scottish conquest of Lothian. The battle also removed a potentially significant source of resistance to the recent conqueror of England, Cnut. This collection of essays by a range of subject specialists explores the battle in its context, bringing new understanding of this important and controversial historical event. Topics covered include: Anglo-Scottish relations, the political character and ecclesiastical organisation of the Northumbrian territory ruled by Uhtred, material from the Chronicles and other historical records that brings the era to light, and the archaeological and sculptural landscape of the tenth- and eleventh-century Tweed basin, where the battle took place.

The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this book, bringing understanding to the evolving relationships among the Scots, English and French against the background of the wider European context of the early sixteenth century. The competing interests of England and France were personified in two of the Scottish Regents: Queen Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and John, Duke of Albany, James Vs nearest male heir, who had been brought up in France and represented the French connection as much as the Scots. The interests of leading Scots families, the Hamiltons and the Douglases, were also at the heart of the power struggle. The book offers a rare insight into a turbulent period of Scottish politics.

By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on topography, mechanical developments and entertaining episodes. Few of these books cover the whole of Scotland and most are treatments of single companies or of particular dramatic events. This study covers the earliest period of Scottish railway history, from the years of the first waggonway developments in the eighteenth century to the advent of the railway mania of the 1840s. It concentrates on the planning and formation of the various railways, the problems and achievements associated with their construction, and the financial records of the companies up to 1844. The first two chapters cover the horse-drawn waggonways of the eighteenth century and the coal railways of the early nineteenth century, while Chapters 35 cover the railways of the 1830s and 1840s.

What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes--their use of mud, reed, wood, and bitumen, and their husbandry of cattle, water buffalo, and sheep--he chronicles what is now a lost way of life. He helps us understand ancient manufacturing processes, an artifacts significance and the skill of those who create and use it, and the substantial moral authority wielded by village craftspeople. He reveals the complexities involved in the process of change, both natural and enforced. Al-Hiba contains the remains of Sumerian people who lived in the marshes more than 5,000 years ago in a similar ecological setting, using similar material resources. The archaeological evidence provides insights into everyday life in antiquity. Ochsenschlager enhances the comparisons of past and present by extensive illustrations from his fieldwork and also from the University Museums rare archival photographs taken in the late nineteenth century by John Henry Haynes. This was long before Saddam Hussein drove one of the tribes from the marshes, forced the Bedouin to live elsewhere, and irrevocably changed the lives of those who tried to stay.

Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal, Guatemala. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969. The painstaking analysis of the results of those years of fieldwork continues, and the results will be published in a projected total of 39 final reports. This volume includes facsimile editions of the first 11 numbers of the final reports, on various topics relevant to the early excavations at Tikal, carried out by the University Museum.

The Black Sea coast is different from the rest of Turkey. For more than 5,000 years Sinop, the central point on the Turkish coast, has seemed more remote from the rest of the Anatolian land mass than from Greece, Italy, Africa, the Crimea, Istanbul, and Rome. How was Sinop connected to them? The Black Sea Trade Project explores the perception of connectedness: how connected did people feel to those in other upland villages, coastal villages, ports, the big port of Sinop, and to distant shores? How did economic, infrastructural, and political institutions bind local populations to larger systems, and how were various institutional processes situated in landscapes? In this first volume from the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project, Owen P. Doonan rigorously explores connection through Sinop and its hinterland, from precolonial Greek settlements through ages of empires, Roman, Russian, and Ottoman conquests to the present day.