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La monarquía hispánica en tiempos del Quijote
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ISBN: 8477371563 Year: 2005 Publisher: Madrid Silex

The politics of contemporary Spain
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ISBN: 9780203002759 9780415356770 9780415356787 020300275X 0415356776 0415356784 9786610099658 6610099650 0415356784 020300275X 1134249802 1280099658 9781134249756 9781134249794 9781134249800 1134249799 9781280099656 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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While Spain is now a well-established democracy closely integrated into the European Union, it has suffered from a number of severe internal problems such as corruption, discord between state and regional nationalism, and separatist terrorism. The Politics of Contemporary Spain charts the trajectory of Spanish politics from the transition to democracy through to the present day, including the aftermath of the Madrid bombings of March 2004 and the elections that followed three days later. It offers new insights on the main political parties and the political system, on the monarchy, corruption, terrorism, regional and conservative nationalism, and on Spain's policies in the Mediterranean and the EU. It challenges many existing assumptions about politics in Spain, reaching beyond systems and practices to look at identities, political cultures and mentalities. It brings to bear on the analysis the latest empirical data and theoretical perspectives.

Mujeres renacentistas en la corte de Isabel la Católica

The politics of contemporary Spain.
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ISBN: 0415356776 0415356784 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Routledge


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Revista catalana de dret públic.
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ISSN: 18855709 18858252 Year: 2005 Publisher: Barcelona : Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya,


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El espacio del poder : la corte en la historiografía modernista española y europea.
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ISBN: 848448324X Year: 2005 Publisher: Valladolid Universidad de Valladolid. Secretariado de publicaciones e intercambio editorial

Bárbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment
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ISBN: 1281729604 9786611729608 0300127677 9780300127676 0300105010 9780300105018 0300119917 9780300119916 9781281729606 6611729607 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Two centuries after Cortés and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways, and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries.In this panoramic study, David J. Weber explains how late eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called bárbaros, or "savages." Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments, and recognize the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use "gentle" means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorizing bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated "savages" in the Age of Enlightenment.

The splintering of Spain : cultural history and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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ISBN: 9780521821780 0521821789 9780511497025 9780521173209 0511497024 0511132638 9780511132636 0511132093 9780511132094 0511132468 9780511132469 1280256044 9781280256042 9786610256044 6610256047 1107145724 9781107145726 0511200463 9780511200465 0511300867 9780511300868 0521173205 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex interaction of national and local factors, contributing to the shape and course of the war. They argue that the 'splintering of Spain' resulted from the myriad cultural cleavages of society in the 1930s that are investigated here at both local and national levels. Thus, this book tends to see the civil war less as a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, social classes or ways of life than historians have previously done. The Spanish tragedy, at the level of everyday life, was shaped by many tensions, both those that were formally political and those that were to do with people's perceptions and understanding of the society around them.

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