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The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves of the "Valparaíso" hillock, from then on called "Sacromonte". They became the object of heated discussions in Europe and were condemned by the Pope in 1682. The texts are among the very last literary productions of the Moriscos, the Andalusi Muslims, many of whom continued to practice Islam in secret until their expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. With the permission of the archbishop of Granada, we offer, for the first time in history, a study, edition, translation, and images of all the tablets and shed new light on the fascinating religious messages of these enigmatic texts and their authors.

Civilization. --- Spain.

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Este Diccionario simbólico del republicanismo histórico español (siglos XIX-XX), fruto de la colaboración de veintiséis especialistas en historia contemporánea de España, se enmarca en la pujanza que, en las últimas décadas, han experimentado los estudios sobre el republicanismo español, a la vez que ofrece un planteamiento novedoso en el campo de esta historiografía. Las ochenta entradas, organizadas en tres secciones -"Principios y valores", "El panteón republicano" y "Símbolos"-, exploran y sistematizan la cultura política republicana en sus diferentes matices, en constante cambio, repleta de múltiples referencias y transferencias culturales de otros países, especialmente Francia, Estados Unidos, Italia y Portugal. Aunque este diccionario no es una historia del republicanismo español, cada entrada diseña una cronología de este movimiento en su contexto histórico-político, sus etapas, sus rupturas, así como sus líneas cohesivas. En suma, se aborda en esta obra la elaboración de la simbología y mitología de la cultura política republicana o de las culturas políticas republicanas en España entre dos siglos -desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta la Segunda República-, entre universalismo revolucionario e historia nacional. El original enfoque que sigue la obra para historiar los valores o principios, las grandes figuras y los símbolos del republicanismo permite descubrir aspectos poco estudiados o conocidos, que también forman parte de la historia de la democracia en España.

Republicanism --- Historiography. --- Spain --- Spain --- History --- Historiography. --- History --- Historiography.

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This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industrialization and modern economic growth only to achieve remarkable economic development during the second half of the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading historians, the book sheds new light on all aspects of economic history from population, agriculture, manufacturing and international trade to government, finance and welfare. The book includes extensive new data and will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development.

Spain --- Portugal --- Iberian Peninsula --- Economic conditions.

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"In The Librarian's Atlas, Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about the practice and politics of information management in early modern Europe. Ancient bibliographers and medieval scholastics, Kimmel reminds us, imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but for early modern scholars, the world was likewise a projection of the library. This notion, at first glance, may seem counterintuitive, especially as reports from late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers in the New World slowly refined-but also destabilized-the Old World's cosmographic and historical consensus. Yet the mapping and ethnographic projects commissioned by early modern rulers, like Spain's Charles V and Philip I, anxious to comprehend and inventory their far-flung territorial possessions in the Americas, nevertheless relied heavily on methods of information management honed in the library. Kimmel focuses on the period that marked the birth of both print and transatlantic exploration. Through close readings of a wide array of materials-library catalogues, marginal glosses, book indexes, biblical commentaries, dictionaries and thesauruses, natural histories, and maps-Kimmel shows how the book-lover's dream of total knowledge in an era of "too much information" helped to shape the early modern period's expanded sense of the world itself. The book should find its audience among scholars of early modern European history, specialists in the early modern cultures of the Mediterranean and Iberia, and a range of students interested in the history of the book and of maps"--

Libraries --- Information resources management --- Bibliography --- Discoveries in geography --- Spain

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Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle provides an alternative explanation of Spanish economic development, analyzing the Miracle from an interdisciplinary political economy perspective that treats capitalist growth as a complex and dynamic interaction between capitalists, workers and the state.

Labor policy --- Social classes --- State, The. --- History --- Spain --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy --- Politics and government