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The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe''s oldest peoples and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for the twenty-first-century city. In The Basque Country, Paddy Woodworth takes us on a sweeping tour of this enchanting land. We discover a small territory which abounds in big contrasts, ranging from moist green valleys to semi-desert badlands, from snowy sierras to sandy beaches, from harsh industrial landscapes to bucolic beech woods. The book reveals how this often idyllic scenery forms the backdrop for a land of ancient and modern culture, where Basque poets still compose spontaneous stanzas in public contests and where strange age-old sports--rock lifting, goose decapitation--are still held at fiestas. Likewise, the region has made important contributions to modern culture, through novelists like Bernardo Atxaga, sculptors like Eduardo Chillida, painters like Zuluoaga, and cineastes like Julio Medem. And of course Bilbao''s flagship museum, the Guggenheim, designed by Frank O. Gehry, may be the best work of architecture of the last century. Here then is a marvelous guide to the culture and landscape of one of the most intriguing places on Earth.

Edición facsimilar. Aumentada con otros documentos y notas por el ilustríssimo señor Don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana.

Reúne 28 aportaciones sobre aspectos como los fundamentos teológicos, el arte, la lingüística misionera, la percepción de la naturaleza o la literatura, todo ello en las misiones jesuíticas desde med

Amplia monografía histórica con tres grandes hilos argumentales: la historia de los moriscos de Villarrubia, la del propio pueblo de Villarrubia desde la Edad Media al s. XVIII y la de dos de sus con

Este libro es el nº 42 de la colección de Estudios de Historia Moderna, y completa el estudio de la Nueva Población de Fuente Palmera que se inició con el nº 40: Ideas, leyes y economía en las Nuevas Poblaciones Carolinas, Fuente Palmera 1767-1882. Consta de dos partes bien diferenciadas. En la primera se trata de manera pormenorizada de la evolucion de las suertes que se entregaron a los colonos llegados de Centroeuropa en 1768, y las incidencias a que dieron lugar entre 1769 y 1835: creacion de nuevas dotaciones reales, equivocaciones en la ocupacion, litigios, etc., y se constata la permanencia de las distintas familias colonas en el territorio. Se analizan asimismo los datos cualitativos sobre los colonos y su comportamiento. La segunda parte esta dedicada a la poblacion y al poblamiento de Fuente Palmera en dos periodos bien diferenciados: 1.- El periodo foral de 1769 a 1835 para los que se han utilizado las relaciones de colonos entre 1769 y 1784, y los padrones parroquiales de 1822 a 1835. 2.- De 1835 a 1900 se trata asimismo la evolucion demografica de los diez nucleos, haciendo un analisis cuantitativo y cualitativo en base a los padrones parroquiales y municipales. Es interesante el estudio de los censos que a partir de 1860 permiten conocer las profesiones de los c

Este trabajo representa un notable esfuerzo por sintetizar las bases del conocimiento sobre la economía del Mediterráneo central y occidental durante prácticamente todo el primer milenio antes de nuestra era. A partir de el, puede realizarse una discusion mas definida sobre los limites, las relaciones y el desarrollo politico del mundo mediterraneo.

La Casa del Deán, en Puebla de los Ángeles, es un monumento excepcional de la cultura novohispana y americana de fines del siglo XVI. El presente volumen reúne una serie de artículos que estudian tanto los murales, su historia y su valor artistico como la vida y redes intelectuales del tercer dean de Tlaxcala don Tomas de la Plaza Goes (1519-1587), presentando para ello documentos ineditos. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, nutrida del pluralismo historico que propugnara Kristeller, se ha buscado hacer un aporte y ofrecer un compendio del conocimiento actual sobre la Casa del Dean, emblema del alto nivel que el arte habia alcanzado en la Nueva España de fines del siglo XVI.

Este libro recoge diecisiete artículos, escritos por diversos especialistas, que examinan la cerámica en el periodo comprendido entre la romanidad tardía y la alta Edad Media en la Península Iberica, resultados de la Reunion celebrada en Merida en noviembre de 2001. Con numerosas ilustraciones, se estudia no solo la tipologia y diferenciacion entre las ceramicas de distintas ciudades y regiones peninsular, Valencia, Jaen, Pais Vasco, Jaen, Malaga, Cordoba, etc., sino numerosos aspectos arqueologicos que tienen que ver con el contexto historico en que se produjeron, los aspectos comerciales, economicos y de diversa indole, que permiten realizar comparaciones diferenciales y similitudes entre algunas de ellas, brindar aportes y extraer conclusiones sobre ese importante periodo. En todos los casos la obra cuenta con una actualizada bibliografia y notas eruditas que hacen de este libro una fuente de necesaria consulta.

The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war. In a radically original way, this book characterizes the 1920s not as a frustrated prelude to a second global conflict but as a fascinating decade in its own right, when politicians and diplomats strove to re-assemble a viable European order. Steiner examines the efforts that failed but also those which gave hope for future promise, many of which are usually underestimated, if not ignored. She shows that an equilibrium was achieved, attained between a partial American withdrawal from Europe and the self-imposed constraints which the Soviet system imposed on exporting revolution. The stabilization painfully achieved in Europe reached it fragile limits after 1925, even prior to the financial crises that engulfed the continent. The hinge years between the great crash of 1929 and Hitler''s achievement of power in 1933 devastatingly altered the balance between nationalism and internationalism. This wide-ranging study helps us grasp the decisive stages in this process. In a second volume, The Triumph of the Night , Steiner will examine the immediate lead up to the Second World War and its early years. ...indisputably the most detailed and authoritative single-volume account of European international history in the fifteen years following the end of the Frist World War...[this work] affirms Zara Steiner''s status as the pre-eminent historian of inter-war international affairs. Martin Conway, EHR 494 Zara Steiner has produced a splendid volume, chock full of detail and with many thought-provoking insights. It will remain a classic for many years to come. For those studying international business history it will serve as an excellent background reference manual to the period... If one were to ask for more it would be the second volume in the same vein. Derek H. Aldcroft, Business History Zara Steiner''s work has ensured that we will have to treat that neglected decade [the 1920s] with proper respect. She has told the story with impeccable scholarship, clarity and compassion ... Her book will rightly become the definitive work on the period. Margaret MacMillan, TLS

The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605-1769 covers the history of this important college with its associations with the early Irish exiles who came into Galicia, the north-west Celtic regions of Spain. It follows the lives of hundreds of Irish clerical students who were forced to leave Ireland because of the Penal Laws against Catholics at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th. These seminarians were trained as priests in the six colleges set up between 1590 and 1649 - five in Spain (Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Madrid and Alcal de Henares) and one in Portugal, in Lisbon. Based on material from several archives but primarily from the Salamanca Archive manuscript source in the Russell Library, NUI, Maynooth, this unique source includes the records of many of the colleges repatriated to Ireland in the 1950s and gives a vivid portrait of life in the Compostela college where the students studied philosophy before going on to the Irish college at Salamanca to follow their course in theology and be duly ordained before travelling back to Ireland to conduct their underground ministry.