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The Peninsular War Atlas Revised
Lipscombey, Nick
Osprey Publishing (2014)
- EAN: 9781472807731
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.61,95 €
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The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance. It made the reputation of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of ...
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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
López-Terrada, María Luz Pardo Tomás, José Slater, John
Ashgate (2014)
- EAN: 9781472428134
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.87,90 €
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Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried ...
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Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain
Skaarup, Bjorn Okholm
Ashgate (2015)
- EAN: 9781472448262
- Páginas: 0
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.94,95 €
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Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. ...
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Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900-1925 "The Alchemy of Identity"
Harrington, Thomas S.
Bucknell University Press (2014)
- EAN: 9781611485615
- Páginas: 340
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.79,95 €
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades ...
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Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines "Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia"
Barton, Simon
University Of Pennsylvania (2015)
- EAN: 9780812246759
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.52,95 €
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Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the ...
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Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America
Abreu Funari, Pedro Pablo Senatore, Maria Ximena
Springer Verlag (2014)
- EAN: 9783319080680
- Páginas: 369
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.158,95 €
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The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the ...
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The Herbal of Al-Ghafiqi "A Facsimile Edition with Critical Essays"
Ragep, F. Jamil
Mcgill Queen'S University Pres (2014)
- EAN: 9780773544758
- Páginas: 736
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.142,95 €
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"Herbals" - collections describing plants used for medicinal purposes - were among the ancient and medieval world's most valued scientific texts, synthesizing a vast treasury of medical learning to facilitate scientific edification for scholar, bibliophiles, ...
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Science, Technology and Cultural Heritage
Rogerio-Candelera, Miguel Angel
Routledge (2014)
- EAN: 9781138027442
- Páginas: 514
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.197,95 €
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The Second International Congress on Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage was held in Seville, Spain, June 24-27, 2014, under the umbrella of the TechnoHeritage network. TechnoHeritage is an initiative funded by ...
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Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899
Buschmann, Rainer
Palgrave (2014)
- EAN: 9781137304704
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.81,95 €
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In the second half of the eighteenth century, renewed exploration of the Pacific Ocean gained much attention in Europe. As mostly British and French explorers ventured to the region searching for mythical continents and legendary ...
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The Arthur of the Iberians "The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds"
Hook, David
University of Wales Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781783162413
- Páginas: 576
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.128,95 €
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This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, ...
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Men, Power and Liberation "Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures"
Thakkar, Amin
Routledge (2015)
- EAN: 9781138908949
- Páginas: 128
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.114,95 €
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Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and non-fictional, drawn from different historical ...
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A Chronology of the Crusades
Venning, Timothy
Routledge (2015)
- EAN: 9781138802698
- Páginas: 472
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.162,95 €
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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, ...
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The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World "The Impact of the Cadiz Constitution of 1812"
Eastman, Scott Sobrevilla Perea, Natalia
The University of Alabama Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780817318567
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.77,95 €
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In March 1812, while Napoleon's brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian ...
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Global Indios "The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain"
Van Deusen, Nancy E.
Duke University Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780822358473
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.89,95 €
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In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed ...
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Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages "A Reader"
Rodríguez, Jarbel
Toronto University Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781442608191
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.89,95 €
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To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as well as commerce, intellectual exchanges, and personal relationships ...
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Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
Banwell, Julia
University of Wales Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781783162499
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.128,95 €
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This book is the first and most extensive academic monograph to be published on the work of the Mexican neo-conceptual artist Teresa Margolles. A range of art works produced by Margolles throughout the length of ...
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Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine
Novillo-Corvalan, Patricia
Routledge (2015)
- EAN: 9781138823907
- Páginas: 0
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.114,95 €
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This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and ...
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Vikings in the South "Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean"
Christys, Ann
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2015)
- EAN: 9781474213769
- Páginas: 152
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.94,65 €
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In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps ...
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Crescent Remembered "Islam and Nationalism on the Iberian Peninsula"
Hertel, Patricia
Sussex. Academic Press. (2015)
- EAN: 9781845196547
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.81,95 €
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Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of ...
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Journal of Medieval Military History
Rogers, Clifford J.
Boydell Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781783270576
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.81,95 €
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Warfare on the periphery of Europe and across cultural boundaries is a particular focus of this volume. One article, on Castilian seapower, treats the melding of northern and southern naval traditions; another clarifies the military ...