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Three Spanish Philosophers

Unamuno, Ortega, Ferrater Mora

By: Jose Ferrater Mora

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Three Spanish Philosophers

Unamuno, Ortega, Ferrater Mora

By: Jose Ferrater Mora

This collection provides an excellent introduction to three of the most important names in twentieth-century Spanish philosophy: Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), and José Ferrater Mora (1912–1991). The thought-provoking work of these great contemporary philosophers offers a rich and penetrating insight into human existence. Originally written by Ferrater Mora in the middle of the last century, his interpretations of Unamuno and Ortega are considered classics, and the chapter on his own thought reflects his mature thinking about being and death. Each essay is introduced by noted Ferrater Mora scholar J. M. Terricabras and contains updated biographical and bibliographic information.

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State University of New York Press

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079148694X

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9780791486948

Chronicle of Alfonso X

By: Shelby Thacker,Jose Escobar

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Chronicle of Alfonso X

By: Shelby Thacker,Jose Escobar

Alfonso X (1221–1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, and chronicles of all the kings of Castile and León, Navarre, Aragón, and Portugal. Alfonso X died before his own life could be written. His was a reign fraught with political intrigue and double crosses, almost constant war and equally constant diplomacy, royal largesse and economic instability—all of which led to open revolt and efforts by Alfonso's own son to depose the king. It would be another sixty-some years before King Alfonso XI would commission Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid to write Cronica de Alfonso X to memorialize his great-grandfather. As Alfonso XI's trusted counselor, ambassador, diplomat, and legist, Fernán was an understandable choice, but in the centuries since, his convoluted prose has proven extremely difficult extremely difficult for scholars. Chronicle of Alfonso X is the first and only translation of the king's history. The original "clumsy Castilian" of Fernán Sánchez has now been transformed into literate and engaging English.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813193680

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9780813193687

Ancestors of Dr Bernardo de Urrutia Matos

By: Francisco Jose Ginorio Viscal

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Ancestors of Dr Bernardo de Urrutia Matos

By: Francisco Jose Ginorio Viscal

This soft cover book begins with Dr Bernardo de Urrutia (1705) of Cuba and lists his ancestral genealogy - from his mother's side. The ancestors include conquistadors, back to medieval Spain. Descendant families include the Garriga of Galicia and Puerto Rico, Urrutia of Cuba and Miami, Dabán branches in Spain including Lopéz Chicheri, Pasquin, and Chicoy. Includes ancient hereditary Houses of Heredía, Mendoza, Carvajál, Villalobos, and de Lara.

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Lulu.com

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0557611113

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9780557611119

Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe

By: Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo

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Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe

By: Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo

As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim world had either ceased or subsided by the late 13th century. Castile and Portugal also transformed the Atlantic Ocean from the inaccessible dead-end of Eurasia into the most promising avenue for European expansion for the first time in history. The articles collected in this volume explore the causes and the nature of this expansion, from a variety of historical traditions. They investigate the extent to which the ’transference’ of Mediterranean traditions aided this process; the characteristics of Iberian conflict that eventually led to the success of its Christian kingdoms; and the motives for launching, and techniques for running, the first European ’overseas empires’ in the unfolding Atlantic frontier. In the process they illuminate the new identities and cultural interactions that this expansion produced in its wake, while the new introduction sets them in the broader context.

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647

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Routledge

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1351898787

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9781351898782

The Sublime South

Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain

By: Jose Luis Venegas

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The Sublime South

Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain

By: Jose Luis Venegas

The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain is the first systematic study on cultural images of Andalusia as Spain’s “Orient” and the impact they have had on nation-building and modernization since the late nineteenth century. While a wealth of studies have examined how northern Europeans from the Romantic period viewed Spain and Andalusia as Europe’s Orient, little attention has been paid to how contemporary Spanish artists and intellectuals assimilated Romantic legacies to engage in an internal form of orientalism. José Luis Venegas deftly explores Spain’s shifting engagements with oriental identity and otherness by looking, not just beyond national, ethnic, and racial borders, but at a territory that is institutionally embedded in the nation-state while symbolically placed between inclusion and abjection. The Sublime South shifts the focus and scale of Edward Said’s notion of orientalism by examining how it evolves and manifests transnationally, as the result of European colonialism in Africa and Asia, and intra-nationally, in a European yet orientalized country. Finally, Venegas challenges ethnocentric notions of Iberian cultures and fosters an understanding of the encounters between Western and Muslim cultures beyond opposing, and often mutually negating, essentialisms.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810137313

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9780810137318

CASALTA

By: Jose Maria Rodriguez

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CASALTA

By: Jose Maria Rodriguez

The word Casalta is a Spanish constriction meaning casa (house) and alta (tall). When the author bought the house, it was squatting, peaceably, very, very old, on the shores of the Elochoman River, which runs into the mighty Columbia at Cathlamet, WA. The floor of the house was so uneven that when one walked from the living room to the kitchen, one would gain speed and had to give a strong right rudder to keep from running onto a wall and hurting one’s shoulder. Three days after the author bought the house, the floor was flooded up to twelve inches. He contacted a contractor to see if the house could be raised. The contractor suggested raising the house eighteen inches, but when he went to the city to get a permit, he was told that the house had to be raised five feet to the fifty-year flood expectancy. The contractor engaged a company that moved houses. They came, placed two long steel beams under the house, placed jacks under the beams, and lifted the house inch by inch to the five-foot-level foundation. When the concrete of the foundation was set, they dropped the house upon it. They went under the house, replaced the rotten beams, and leveled them. The floor inside the house now feels firm and level.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479787329

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Three Spanish Philosophers

Three Spanish Philosophers

Chronicle of Alfonso X

Chronicle of Alfonso X

Ancestors of Dr Bernardo de Urrutia Matos

Ancestors of Dr Bernardo de Urrutia Matos

Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe

Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe

The Sublime South

The Sublime South

CASALTA

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