Per una casa gran del catalanisme

Per una casa gran del catalanisme
Author: Artur Mas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Aquest llibre del líder de Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya conté alhora una reflexió i una proposta. L'autor convida, d'una banda, a repensar la trajectòria històrica, l'abast i el futur del catalanisme en aquest inici del nou segle. I, de l'altra, conscient de la necessitat de cercar una sortida que permeti superar la fase actual del projecte autonòmic, proposa els camins que han de permetre, en un horitzó no llunyà, que Catalunya pugui exercir el dret a decidir sobre el seu futur. L'obra és també una invitació a cercar, a través d'allò que anomena la Casa Gran del catalanisme, el màxim consens nacional que faci possible l'avenç del país -tant des del punt de vista nacional com del de l'estat del benestar- cap a un futur millor. Aquest llibre constitueix, doncs, una de les a-portacions conceptuals i una de les propostes més sòlides que hagi fet, en els darrers anys, un dirigent català amb una alta responsabilitat política.

After Havana

After Havana
Author: Charles Fleming
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 1870
Release: 2008-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781429973878

An epic and explosive novel of Cuba in 1958, After Havana is the story the nightclubs, revolutionaries, and Security forces in the sour twilight of the Batista empire. Sloan is a white American horn player with a bruised past and a wounded heart. Anita is the mixed-race beauty who will recapture his love and spark a manhunt through the streets of the city and into the heart of the rebel-held Sierre Maestra mountains. Carlos Delgado is the famed rebel Communist leader, having secretely returned to his homeland from exile in Mexico. And Cardoso is the haunted Security agent assigned to find and kill Delgado, thereby shifting the power back to the corrupt Batista government. Cardoso is author Charles Fleming's greatest creation yet, a man corrupted by circumstance and duty yet willing to sacrifice it all for redemption.

The Politics of Chemistry

The Politics of Chemistry
Author: Agustí Nieto-Galan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108482430

Agust Nieto-Galan argues that chemistry in the twentieth century was deeply and profoundly political. Far from existing in a distinct public sphere, chemical knowledge was applied in ways that created strong links with industrial and military projects, and national rivalries and international endeavours, that materially shaped the living conditions of millions of citizens. It is within this framework that Nieto-Galan analyses how Spanish chemists became powerful ideological agents in different political contexts, from liberal to dictatorial regimes, throughout the century. He unveils chemists' position of power in Spain, their place in international scientific networks, and their engagement in fierce ideological battles in an age of extremes. Shared discourses between chemistry and liberalism, war, totalitarianism, religion, and diplomacy, he argues, led to advancements in both fields.

Barcelona 1900

Barcelona 1900
Author: Teresa-M. Sala
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN:

La transformación de la ciudad de Barcelona gracias a las aportaciones de los mecenas del momento: la sociedad burguesa, un estamento con conciencia de cambio que quiere dar una identidad a la ciudad y proyectarla a nivel europeo, a imagen y semejanza de París. Un momento de metamorfosis urbanística, arquitectónica y artística que impulsará un proceso irreversible de metropolización, compartido con otras muchas ciudades europeas.

Anarchism and the City

Anarchism and the City
Author: Chris Ealham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781849350129

A dramatic study of working-class urbanism and the fight for control of Barcelona.

Spanish in Bilingual and Multilingual Settings around the World

Spanish in Bilingual and Multilingual Settings around the World
Author: Gregory Thompson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004249494

This handbook is unique in its focus on bilingual theories, issues on the teaching of bilinguals, bilingual policies abroad, and current research on bilinguals as all of this related in some way to the Spanish-speaking world. There is currently no other book like it available, despite the growing number of courses teaching Spanish Bilingualism. It is anticipated that this new handbook will be of great interest to linguists, sociolinguists, language acquisitionists, as well as teachers who deal with topics relating to bilingualism as it relates to Spanish speakers around the world. Though work has been done looking at bilingualism and multilingualism, this book provides a valuable addition that deals with an area where a comprehensive work such as this is indeed lacking.

Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937

Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937
Author: Chris Ealham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134423403

This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.

Catalan Nationalism

Catalan Nationalism
Author: Albert Balcells
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780312126117

This book, the first study of Catalan nationalism to appear in English, outlines the history of Catalonia, showing how the national and cultural identity of the region persisted despite persecution. This provides the necessary background for the analysis of the contemporary political and cultural situation in Catalonia in the wider context of the European Union.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
Author: Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2010-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027288399

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.