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The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

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The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

This book contains the whole text of an Inquisition trial of a Morisco (converted Muslim) of Toledo, Spain, condemned to burn at the stake. It is preceded by an introduction which studies the trial and shows the multifaceted aspects of the text and its protagonists.

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9004501606

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The Orient in Spain

Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism

By: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriquez,Fernando Rodríguez Mediano

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The Orient in Spain

Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism

By: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriquez,Fernando Rodríguez Mediano

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wish to respect Arabic cultural traditions, and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration into “Old Christian” society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain, in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic, was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed. The authors consider these issues not only from a local point of view, but from a wider perspective, in an attempt to understand how these matters related to more general European intellectual and religious developments.

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9004250298

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9789004250291

Human Rights Movement and Discourse.

Its emergence and constituition in Argentina

By: Mercedes Barros

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Human Rights Movement and Discourse.

Its emergence and constituition in Argentina

By: Mercedes Barros

This book accounts for the process of emergence and constitution of the human rights movement and discourse during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Central to this account is the contention that the movement’s emergence and constitution should not be understood as a necessary or as a natural response to the atrocities carried out by the last military regime, but instead as the result of a contingent process of political articulation and as a response which could have failed in its constitution and success.Thus, the appearance of the human rights movement and discourse in the country can only be understood in its full complexity if attention is given to this very process of popular mobilisation and political articulation that took place during 1976-1982.

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Eduvim

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9876990136

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9789876990134

Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

By: Mercedes de Caso Bernal

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Las relaciones comerciales marítimas entre Andalucía occidental y el Mediterráneo central en el II milenio a.C.

By: Mercedes de Caso Bernal

This volume reflects on the unique status of the Western Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, considering the independence of its development and the existence of an indigenous maritime trade.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789695120

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Subject Stages

Marriage, Theatre and the Law in Early Modern Spain

By: María Mercedes Carrión

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Subject Stages

Marriage, Theatre and the Law in Early Modern Spain

By: María Mercedes Carrión

Subject Stages argues that the discourses and practices of marital legislation, litigation, and theatrics informed each other in early modern Spain in ways that still have a critical bearing on contemporary events in Spain, such as the legalization of divorce in 1978 and of same-sex marriage in 2005.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442641088

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National Identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America

By: Antonio Gomez-Moriana,Mercedes Duran-Cogan

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National Identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America

By: Antonio Gomez-Moriana,Mercedes Duran-Cogan

This study frames the social dynamics of Latin American in terms of two types of cultural momentum: foundational momentum and the momentum of global order in contemporary Latin America.

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Routledge

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1135667667

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A Man of Three Worlds

Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

By: Fernando Garcia-Arenal,Mercedes García-Arenal,Research Professor Mercedes Garcia-Arenal,Professor Gerard Wiegers,Gerard Wiegers

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A Man of Three Worlds

Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

By: Fernando Garcia-Arenal,Mercedes García-Arenal,Research Professor Mercedes Garcia-Arenal,Professor Gerard Wiegers,Gerard Wiegers

In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew). In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers view Samuel Pallache's world as a microcosm of early modern society, one far more interconnected, cosmopolitan, and fluid than is often portrayed. Pallache's missions and misadventures took him from Islamic Fez and Catholic Spain to Protestant England and Holland. Through these travels, the authors explore the workings of the Moroccan sultanate and the Spanish court, the Jewish communities of Fez and Amsterdam, and details of the Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. At once a sweeping view of two continents, three faiths, and five nation-states and an intimate story of one man's remarkable life, A Man of Three Worlds is history at its most compelling.

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JHU Press

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0801872251

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Producing the Pacific

Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606)

By: Mercedes Maroto Camino

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Producing the Pacific

Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606)

By: Mercedes Maroto Camino

Producing the Pacific offers the reader an interdisciplinary reading of the maps, narratives and rituals related to the three Spanish voyages to the South Pacific that took place between 1567 and 1606. These journeys were led by Álvaro de Mendaña, Pedro Fernández de Quirós and Isabel Barreto, the first woman ever to become admiral of and command a fleet. Mercedes Maroto Camino presents a cultural analysis of these journeys and takes issue with some established notions about the value of the past and the way it is always rewritten from the perspective of the present. She highlights the social, political and cultural environment in which maps and narratives circulate, suggesting that their significance is always subject to negotiation and transformation. The tapestry created by the interpretation of maps, narratives and rituals affords a view not only of the minds of the first men and women who traversed the Pacific but also of how they saw the ocean, its islands and their peoples. Producing the Pacific should, therefore, be of relevance to those interested in history, voyages, colonialism, cartography, anthropology and cultural studies. The study of these cultural products contributes to an interpretive history of colonialism at the same time that it challenges the beliefs and assumptions that underscore our understanding of that history.

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9401202923

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9789401202923

Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

By: Peter M. Ward,Edith R. Jiménez Huerta,María Mercedes Di Virgilio

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Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

By: Peter M. Ward,Edith R. Jiménez Huerta,María Mercedes Di Virgilio

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities. This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jiménez and María Di Virgilio are founding members of the network who have led project teams in Guadalajara and Buenos Aires respectively. Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the volume encompasses nine Latin American countries and eleven cities. The editors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities; document the changing nature of the "first suburbs"; present comparative survey findings in order to better understand the types of consolidated settlements that exist today; describe the physical nature of the dwellings themselves; identify the reasons behind market dysfunction that impede the operation of consolidated housing informal markets in Latin American cities; and outline a new generation of housing policies that will support the processes of densification, rehabilitation, and regeneration of these settlements. This book is the first and only composite overview of the research findings and advocacy of the generic policy lines that the LAHN identifies as central to a new generation of housing strategies and approaches. Researchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant.

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1317680111

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9781317680116

Goya’s Graphic Imagination

By: Mark McDonald,Mercedes Cerón-Peña,Francisco J. R. Chaparro,Jesusa Vega

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Goya’s Graphic Imagination

By: Mark McDonald,Mercedes Cerón-Peña,Francisco J. R. Chaparro,Jesusa Vega

This book presents the first focused investigation of Francisco Goya's (1746–1828) graphic output. Spanning six decades, Goya’s works on paper reflect the transformation and turmoil of the Enlightenment, the Inquisition, and Spain's years of constitutional government. Two essays, a detailed chronology, and more than 100 featured artworks illuminate the remarkable breadth and power of Goya's drawings and prints, situating the artist within his historical moment. The selected pieces document the various phases and qualities of Goya's graphic work—from his early etchings after Velázquez through print series such as the Caprichos and The Disasters of War to his late lithographs, The Bulls of Bordeaux, and including albums of drawings that reveal the artist’s nightmares, dreams, and visions.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397149

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Serving Citizens

A Decade of Civil Service Reforms in Latin America (2004-13)

By: Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde,Mariano Lafuente,Mario Sanginés,Christian Schuster,Koldo Echebarría,Francisco Longo,Luciano Strazza,Mercedes Iacoviello

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Serving Citizens

A Decade of Civil Service Reforms in Latin America (2004-13)

By: Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde,Mariano Lafuente,Mario Sanginés,Christian Schuster,Koldo Echebarría,Francisco Longo,Luciano Strazza,Mercedes Iacoviello

This book focuses on civil service reform within the central administration in Latin America. It analyzes updated versions of the country assessments carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank in 2004 in 16 countries and presents a comparative analysis of the ways in which the countries have evolved during the last decade. The methodology is based on the principles of the Ibero-American Charter for Public Service. In addition, it draws lessons from reform processes, identifying strategies for civil service modernization in the region. Finally, the book proposes a possible future agenda to continue the efforts to further professionalize the civil service in Latin America.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597821845

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9781597821841

The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700

By: Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal

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The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700

By: Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.

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University of Toronto Press

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148753549X

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9781487535490

Marketing Research Methods

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Mercedes Esteban-Bravo,Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

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Marketing Research Methods

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

By: Mercedes Esteban-Bravo,Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

Covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, this book examines the breadth of modern market research methods for upper level students across business schools and social science faculties. Modern and trending topics including social networks, machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence are addressed and real world examples and case studies illustrate the application of the methods. This text examines potential problems, such as researcher bias, and discusses effective solutions in the preparation of research reports and papers, and oral presentations. Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics or econometrics, discrete chapters offer a clear introduction to both, opening up the quantitative methods to all students. Each chapter contains rigorous academic theory, including a synthesis of the recent literature as well as key historical references, applied contextualization and recent research results, making it an excellent resource for practitioners. Online resources include extensive chapter bibliographies, lecture slides, an instructor guide and extra extension material and questions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108892299

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9781108892292

The Power of Entrepreneurs

Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain

By: Mercedes Cabrera,Fernando del Rey

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The Power of Entrepreneurs

Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain

By: Mercedes Cabrera,Fernando del Rey

Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various upheavals such as the crisis of the democratic republic and the civil war in the 1930s, the long General Franco dictatorship from the 1940s until the 1970s and the subsequent transition to democracy. From the detailed studies of individual cases, specific companies as well as entrepreneurial organizations, a very diverse picture emerges, contradicting widespread simplistic interpretations of politico-economic linkages, which demonstrates both the pluralism of the economic interests as well as the complexity of their relationship to the political class.

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Berghahn Books

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180073414X

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9781800734142

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

By: María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez

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The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

By: María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema responds to the renewed interest in class within and outside academia by examining the aesthetics and politics of class in a representative selection of films from the contemporary cinemas of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. It explores the relationship of cinematic practices to conflicting socio-political transformations taking place in these five countries such as the intensification of neoliberalism, the Turn-to-the-Left, and the growth of the middle classes in the period from 2003 to 2015. Utilizing a critical comparative method , it sheds a critical light on the presumed depoliticization (or new, aestheticized politicization) of contemporary Latin American cinema. The combined textual and industrial analyses of films from strikingly different cinemas and directors through the lenses of class allows for a contextualization of this trend and the observation of its limitations. Furthermore, this book distinguishes cinematic figurations that correspond to new conceptualizations of class introduced in social studies from figurations of class that have yet to be conceptualized.

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Lexington Books

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1498553036

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9781498553032

Secretos y cenizas

Una historia de amor ante el peligro de una guerra que pudo cambiar el destino de América.

By: Mercedes Santos

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Secretos y cenizas

Una historia de amor ante el peligro de una guerra que pudo cambiar el destino de América.

By: Mercedes Santos

1738, Carina de Ulloa recibe la carta que cambiará su vida. Su padre, un marino de la Armada Real destinado al Virreinato de Nueva Granada, le pide que se reúna con él en Cartagena de Indias. La esperan una fortuna en cacaotales y un aristócrata venido a menos con quien casarse. Pero al desembarcar le informan que su padre fue asesinado y su prometido se casó con otra. Pronto Carina descubrirá los turbios negocios de su padre, el contrabando generalizado, el clima de guerra que se vive en todo el Caribe entre España e Inglaterra, la existencia de una hermanastra mulata perseguida por la Inquisición y los pasquines difamatorios que la han puesto en ridículo antes de llegar a la ciudad. Su camino se cruzará con el de Diego de Veranz, un malcriado aristócrata desterrado de la ciudad acusado de un crimen, que tras su fachada de bonvivant trabaja en secreto para la Corona. Oculto tras el disfraz de letrado, ayudará a la mujer a la que él mismo convirtió en el hazmerreír de toda Cartagena. Ambos buscan venganza, pero serán arrollados por un elemento imprevisto: la pasión.Las plantaciones de cacao, las misas negras en las ciénagas, el poder de la Inquisición y el lujo de la corte virreinal, el pirateo en Jamaica y Tortuga, el asalto inglés a Portobello y el ataque inglés a Cartagena -el mayor en la historia naval hasta el de Normandía doscientos años después-, son el escenario de esta heroica novela de amor.

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Cute Ediciones SRL

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9871903103

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9789871903108

Diversidad(eS)

Discapacidad, altas capacidades intelectuales y trastornos del espectro autista

By: Asun Pié Balaguer (coord.),Ramon Duch Almo,Mercedes Martínez Torres,Rosa Maria Miró Rovira,Israel Rodríguez Giralt

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Diversidad(eS)

Discapacidad, altas capacidades intelectuales y trastornos del espectro autista

By: Asun Pié Balaguer (coord.),Ramon Duch Almo,Mercedes Martínez Torres,Rosa Maria Miró Rovira,Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Diversidade(S). Discapacidad, altas capacidades intelectuales y trastornos del espectro autista se estructura en tres partes. En primer lugar, se presenta la discapacidad intelectual desde el modelo social. En segundo lugar, se estudian los trastornos del espectro autista desde una visión amplia e interdisciplinaria hasta los aportes específicos de Fernand Deligny en Francia y el movimiento de la neurodiversidad en Inglaterra. En tercer lugar, se indican los elementos esenciales para el trabajo educativo con niños con altas capacidades intelectuales en el aula. El libro recoge los enfoques teóricos, modelos epistemológicos, técnicas de acompañamiento socioeducativo, instrumentos de detección, evaluación y orientaciones generales de trabajo en contextos educativos para los tres casos citados. Se plantea una aproximación teórico-práctica que ofrece criterios de actuación a los profesionales de la educación. Por otro lado, se interroga sobre algunos debates y controversias presentes en los casos estudiados ofreciendo, en su conjunto, un contenido extenso y de gran aplicación práctica.

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Editorial UOC

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8490646643

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9788490646649

El Mesolítico en Cantabria centro-oriental

By: Mercedes Pérez Bartolomé

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El Mesolítico en Cantabria centro-oriental

By: Mercedes Pérez Bartolomé

This book explores the Mesolithic period in the central-eastern area of Cantabria (Spain) as a manifestation of sociocultural evolution and change of the societies that lived in the area between the ninth and sixth millennia cal BC, until the introduction of farming.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789692474

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De la sociedad de las naciones a la globalización: Visiones desde América y Europa

By: Andrés Medina (editor),Mercedes Samaniego

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De la sociedad de las naciones a la globalización: Visiones desde América y Europa

By: Andrés Medina (editor),Mercedes Samaniego

El contenido de este texto dice relación directa con las investigaciones que presentaron diferentes académicos nacionales y extranjeros en el V Congreso Chile España, que se desarrolló en la Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción durante el año 2018. Las temáticas que se consideraron en dicha actividad, tuvieron directa relación con la Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales y se iniciaron con el origen y rol de la Sociedad de Naciones el año 1919, culminando con la iniciativa americana en este campo, representada por UNASUR y su actual condición.

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Ediciones UCSC

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9566068190

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9789566068198

Messianism and Puritanical Reform

Mahdīs of the Muslim West

By: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

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Messianism and Puritanical Reform

Mahdīs of the Muslim West

By: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

This book is a valuable contribution to the study of messianism and millenarianism in the history of Muslim Spain and pre-Modern Morocco presented in a broader framework of research on Muslim eschatological beliefs and Islamic ideas on legitimate power.

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BRILL

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9047409221

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9789047409229

Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice

By: Mercedes Vicente

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Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice

By: Mercedes Vicente

The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materials—a sort of catalogue raisonné—whilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,—expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past.

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Springer Nature

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3031369033

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9783031369032

Soultown

By: Mercedes Lambert

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Soultown

By: Mercedes Lambert

Attorney Whitney Logan and her Chicana sister-in-arms, Lupe Ramos, return in a hip, noir mystery that spirals deep into L.A.'s Koreatown. Whitney is determined to reunite Lupe with her son, but first they have to find him. Their search takes them to back streets of Koreatown, where they find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery--and with a corpse on their hands.

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