Spain

Spain
Author: Pierre Vilar
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1967
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contested Pasts

Contested Pasts
Author: Katharine Hodgkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134448244

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.

Saracen Tales

Saracen Tales
Author: Giuseppe Bonaviri
Publisher: Crossings
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.

The Universities in the Nineteenth Century

The Universities in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael Sanderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315443864

This title, first published in 1975, analyses the ways in which developments in Victorian universities have shaped both the structure and the assumptions of British higher education in the twentieth century. No period of British higher education has been more full of change nor so rooted in fundamental debate than the second half of the nineteenth century. Its lasting impact makes it crucial for an understanding both of this period of Victorian social history and of the contemporary system of higher education in Britain. This title will be of interest to students of history and education.

Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History

Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History
Author: Derek Flitter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

Other matters considered include the medieval revival, the rejection of Enlightenment formulae, the fear of an absent but psychologically potent Revolution, Romantic diagnoses of nineteenth-century reality within the prism of the 'Two Spains', and the entailments of Romantic literary history and its construction of a casticista cultural identity."--Jacket.