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Author: Greville Rumble
Publisher: EUNED
ISBN: 9789977643229
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Pablo Bornstein
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical interpretations of the legacy left by Muslim and Jewish culture in Spain had over the writing of national history in the period of the Bourbon Restoration. A historiographical account of Spains Orientalism tackles the problematized issues that both Arabist and Hebraist scholars sought to address. Orientalist scholarship thereby became inextricably linked to different interpretations of the historical shaping of Spanish national identity. Political circumstances of the day impacted on the approach these scholars took as they engaged with the Iberian Semitic past. And this at a critical moment in the crystallization of modern Spanish nationalism. A common thread running through the work of these Orientalist scholars was the tendency to nationalize or Hispanicize cultural activity of the Semitic populations that lived on the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times. This Hispanizication was instrumentalized in diverse ways in order to serve nation-building efforts. Hence Orientalist scholarship became integrated into the national debates that were shaping Spanish cultural and political life at the turn of the century. Reclaiming al-Andalus explains how regenerationist projects taking form after the national crisis of 1898, and different polemical discussions around religion-state affairs, deeply influenced the writings of academic Orientalism. The intertwined connection between Orientalist scholarship and nationalist debates in Spain has hitherto been understudied. This book not only contributes to the general debate on modern Orientalism, but most importantly presents a profound new viewpoint to the ongoing debate on the conflictive history of Spanish nationalism.

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Publisher: Religacion Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Greville Rumble
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429776470
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Originally published in 1982 this volume provides nine case studies of particular distance teaching universities in Canada, China, Cost Rica, Germany, Israel, Pakistan, Spain, Venezuela and the UK. These universities were mainly founded in the 1970s to teach only at a distance. The book considers the provision of distance education by universities in general and the development and characteristics of the distance teaching universities in particular. Chronicling the emergence of new university structures between 1971-1981, the book also provides an appraisal of their performance in the early years.

Author: María Jordano de la Torre
Publisher: Editorial UNED
ISBN: 8436279468
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Discover the potential of "Digital Technologies in English Studies and Research," exploring the use of digital tools in this academic field. Learn about databases and electronic libraries, start using bibliographic management applications like RefWorks and Mendeley, explore Communities of Practice (CoPs) facilitated by digital technologies -fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing-, discover the power of Web 2.0 and emerging technologies for content creation and data collection, and finally, navigate the publishing industry, from guidelines and accessibility issues to AI (artificial intelligence) applications. Each unit provides brainstorming questions, learning aims, and structured content, empowering your understanding. Besides, you can put all that in practice, with guided activities and self-evaluations, expanding thus your knowledge.

Author: Luis Alcalde Linares
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463325428
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Erase una vez... representa el esfuerzo de muchos años de preparación. El buscar el contenido de un libro es realmente difícil, ya que hay muchos temas en el mercado, pero no lo hago por ninguna razón en particular, pero siempre me ha preocupado el misterio de la vida, porque estamos aquí, ¿qué es la vida realmente? ¿Es sueño? ¿Es ilusión? ¿Qué es? Pero el hecho es que siempre me he preguntado, por que el ser humano, homínido, hace las cosas sistemáticamente, ¿quizás porque no puede salir de ese sueño? A mí me gustaría encontrar respuestas, pero las tengo en mi mente. Es realmente difícil, escoger el tema de un libro, ya que hay en el mercado multitud de ejemplares, unos mejores que otros, pero yo he querido hacer algo distinto en la narrativa que hay desde Homero, hasta nuestros días. No sé si el libro será de su agrado, ya que sobre gustos no hay nada escrito, pero de todas maneras he puesto todo en él, la ilusión de conectar con la gente, de aportar algo al sistema educativo y cultural del planeta, etc., pero lo que sí es cierto es que les guste o no, es un intento de acercarme a Uds. y a la verdad de las cosas. Luis Alcalde

Author: Susan Sinclair
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170588
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1510

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Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Author: Jonathan Whitehead
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399063952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until they could force concessions or at least implement a mass evacuation of those Republicans most at risk in Franco’s new Spain, the government withdrew to Elda in the province of Alicante. However, their plans were thwarted by a new rebellion of Republican officers, led by Colonel Segismundo Casado, who resented Negrín’s reliance on the Communist Party and the USSR and believed themselves better equipped to negotiate a peace settlement with Franco. They were misguided, Franco had no wish, and ultimately no need to negotiate. Meanwhile, faced with the imminent risk of arrest by the new junta, the Prime Minister and his cabinet were forced to abandon Spain from the tiny aerodrome of Monóvar. A relatively quiet port on the eastern, Mediterranean coast of Spain, Alicante had remained at some distance from the frontlines throughout the fighting on the ground, but swiftly became a target for Italian bombers operating out of bases in the Balearic Islands. In May 1938, at the height of the air offensive, Italian bombers attacked the marketplace, causing a massacre as tragic as the events in Guernica, yet largely ignored by historians. As the war drew towards its conclusion, Alicante became increasingly significant as attention focused on the plight of the defeated Republicans. In the second half of March 1939, the fronts collapsed, and Madrid finally fell to the insurgents. Tens of thousands of refugees descended on Alicante in the forlorn hope of rescue by French and British ships that had been promised but which failed to materialise. Amid the tragedy, as the British and French governments declined to engage in any humanitarian intervention that might offend Hitler and Mussolini, a single hero emerged; Captain Archibald Dickson, the Welsh master of the Stanbrook who ditched his cargo and transported 3,000 refugees to safety in North Africa. On 30 March 1939, Franco’s vanguard, the Italian ‘Volunteer’ Corps under General Gastone Gambara, occupied a town already under the control of the Fifth Column. Two days later the Generalísimo issued a communiqué from his headquarters in Burgos, declaring that the war was over. The bulk of the Republicans surrounded and captured in the port were marched to an improvised internment camp, known as the Campo de los Almendros (Field of Almond Trees). They were then transferred to the infamous concentration camp at Albatera to share the fate of defeated Republicans across Spain and to undergo the program of ideological cleansing of the new fascist authorities.

Author: Olga Sendra Ferrer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487538359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s. Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones – those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization. In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.

Author: Mario Barajas
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 9788447527328
Category : Distance education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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