Author: Moreno-Goldschmidt, Aliza Publisher: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana ISBN: 9587812042 Category : History Languages : es Pages : 488
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La guerra en Colombia, la última contienda armada del hemisferio, se ha convertido en una especie de lugar común, pero a la vez en una suerte de enigma que elude todo desciframiento cabal. Sus rasgos distintivos han recibido por parte de la academia muy diversas aproximaciones, todas ellas centradas en perspectivas cronológicas de corto plazo. Observar más atrás de los años 50 del siglo pasado puede parecer un ejercicio superfluo, casi un lujo historiográfico poco rentable frente a las urgencias del presente y su absorbente fuerza de atracción. Sin embargo, resulta necesario indagar en algunas de las dinámicas y lógicas de nuestras guerras civiles decimonónicas que resultaron determinantes para conducir negociaciones, elaborar parámetros y prácticas de regulación, así como para construir imaginarios y rituales en los que se fundiera tanto su recordación como su olvido. Esta aproximación, que combina la mirada retrospectiva de largo aliento con la atención a los procesos recientes, permite excavar semánticas y procedimientos que los colombianos pusimos en ejercicio para concluir o prevenir contiendas armadas, lograr en ocasiones parámetros de regulación superiores a los entonces disponibles en la tradición europea y memorializar los caídos en el decurso de sus acciones, en cuyos derroteros todavía perseveramos.
Author: Ruth Fine Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110563797 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 686
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This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.
Author: Francisco Bethencourt Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691256802 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 624
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A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there were around 260,000 New Christians by 1500—more than half of Iberia’s urban population. The majority stayed in Iberia but a significant number moved throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, coastal Asia and the New World. They established Sephardic communities in North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam, Hamburg and London. Bethencourt focuses on the elite of bankers, financiers and merchants from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries and the crucial role of this group in global trade and financial services. He analyses their impact on religion (for example, Teresa de Ávila), legal and political thought (Las Casas), science (Amatus Lusitanus), philosophy (Spinoza) and literature (Enríquez Gomez). Drawing on groundbreaking research in eighteen archives and library manuscript departments in six different countries, Bethencourt argues that the liminal position in which the New Christians found themselves explains their rise, economic prowess and cultural innovation. The New Christians created the first coherent legal case against the discrimination of a minority singled out for systematic judicial inquiry. Cumulative inquisitorial prosecution, coupled with structural changes in international trade, led to their decline and disappearance as a recognizable ethnicity by the mid-eighteenth century. Strangers Within tells an epic story of persecution, resistance and the making of Iberia through the oppression of one of the most powerful minorities in world history. Packed with genealogical information about families, their intercontinental networks, their power and their suffering, it is a landmark study.
Author: Jonathan Benzion Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004510311 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 261
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This work is an academic pursuit that aims to produce innovative scholarly general interest that explores, through a fresh perspective and from a historical approach and a multidisciplinary angle, an understudied subject of Colonial and Early Independent Mexico’s History: Islam.
Author: Ministerio de Educación Nacional (Spain). - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. - Instituto Balmes de Sociología. - Departamento de Historia Social Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages : 252
Author: Moreno-Goldschmidt, Aliza
Author: Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt
Author: Ruth Fine
Author: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
Author: Francisco Bethencourt
Author: Jonathan Benzion
Author: Ministerio de Educación Nacional (Spain). - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. - Instituto Balmes de Sociología. - Departamento de Historia Social
Author: María Antonia Bel Bravo
Author: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
Author: Antonio Domïnguez Ortiz