Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture
Author: Professor Eamonn Rodgers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134788584

Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays offering in-depth treatment of major issues. Culture is defined in its broadest sense. Entries include: *Antonio Gaudí * science * Antonio Banderas * golf * dance * education * politics * racism * urbanization This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in Spanish culture. It provides essential cultural context for students of Spanish, European History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848

The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848
Author: Paul W. Schroeder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198206545

This is the only modern study of European international politics to cover the entire timespan from the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 to the revolutionary year of 1848.

Urban Change and the European Left

Urban Change and the European Left
Author: Donald McNeill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134697945

This book helps make sense of the shape of contemporary urban change and describes the way in which cities are central to the construction of place-based political identities.

Revitalizing Electoral Geography

Revitalizing Electoral Geography
Author: Jonathan Leib
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317063465

Electoral Geography, the analysis of spatial patterns of voting, is undergoing a renaissance with new methodological advances, theoretical shifts and changes in the political landscape. Integrating new conceptual approaches with a broad array of case studies from the USA, Europe and Asia, this volume examines key questions in electoral geography: How has electoral geography changed since the 1980s when the last wave of works in this sub discipline appeared? In what ways does contemporary scholarship in social theory inform the analysis of elections and their spatial patterns? How has electoral geography been reconfigured by social and technological changes and those that shape the voting process itself? How can the comparative analysis of elections inform the field? In addressing these issues, the volume moves electoral geography beyond its traditional, empiricist focus on the United States to engage with contemporary theoretical developments and to outline the myriad theoretical, conceptual and methodological perspectives and applications that together are ushering in electoral geography's revitalization. The result is a broader, comparative analysis of how elections reflect and in turn shape social and spatial relations.

Crime Scene Spain

Crime Scene Spain
Author: Renée W. Craig-Odders
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786454474

This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running Inspector Mendez series, Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and place and identity in Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado series. Other essays examine regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's El blues de la semana mas negra.

Spanish Culture and Society

Spanish Culture and Society
Author: Barry Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317835875

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Chief European Dramatists

The Chief European Dramatists
Author: Brander Matthews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1212
Release: 1916
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Twenty one plays from the drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway from 500 B. C. to 1879 A.