Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041239320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 06: Paris
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041239320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368456563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 30: Old Age and Death
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041263752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798
Author: Giacomo CasanovaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368456245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
Author: K. Meira GoldbergPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443870617
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise genres as diverse as Mexican son jarocho, the salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti, and the Andalusian fandangos central to flamenco. From the celebrations of humble folk to the theaters of the European elite, with boisterous castanets, strumming strings, flirtatious sensuality, and dexterous footwork, the fandango became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance, and people of diverse Spanish, Afro-Latin, Gitano, and even Amerindian origins. Once a symbol of Spanish Empire, it came to signify freedom of movement and of expression, given powerful new voice in the twenty-first century by Mexican immigrant communities. What is the full array of the fandango? The superb essays gathered in this collection lay the foundational stone for further exploration.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798 Volume 2 to Paris and Prison
Author: Jacques Casanova de SeingaltPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722706999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. According to Wikipedia: "Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) was a Venteitian adveturers and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (History of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. So famous a womanizer was the Italian-born libertine Giacomo Casanova that, a full two centuries after his death, his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. But for the years he spent in the employ of Count Waldstein of Bohemia as a librarian, Casanova, "the world's greatest lover" at one time the company of European royalty, popes and cardinals, and man known to the likes of Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart would have been consigned to obscurity." Includes unique illustrations.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and Holland
Author: Giacomo CasanovaA People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Author: Paul PrestonPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871408708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston’s magisterial history of modern Spain. The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world. Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston’s magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain’s collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory. This loss hung over Spain in the early years of the twentieth century, its agrarian economic base standing in stark contrast to the emergence of England, Germany, and France as industrial powers. Looking back to the years prior to 1923, Preston demonstrates how electoral corruption infiltrated almost every sector of Spanish life, thus excluding the masses from organized politics and giving them a bitter choice between apathetic acceptance of a decrepit government or violent revolution. So ineffective was the Republic—which had been launched in 1873—that it paved the way for a military coup and dictatorship, led by Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, exacerbating widespread profiteering and fraud. When Rivera was forced to resign in 1930, his fall brought forth a succession of feeble governments, stoking rancorous tensions that culminated in the tragic Spanish Civil War. With astonishing detail, Preston describes the ravages that rent Spain in half between 1936 and 1939. Tracing the frightening rise of Francisco Franco, Preston recounts how Franco grew into Spain’s most powerful military leader during the Civil War and how, after the war, he became a fascistic dictator who not only terrorized the Spanish population through systematic oppression and murder but also enriched corrupt officials who profited from severe economic plunder of Spain’s working class. The dictatorship lasted through World War II—during which Spain sided with Mussolini and Hitler—and only ended decades later, in 1975, when Franco’s death was followed by a painful yet bloodless transition to republican democracy. Yet, as Preston reveals, corruption and political incompetence continued to have a corrosive effect on social cohesion into the twenty-first century, as economic crises, Catalan independence struggles, and financial scandals persist in dividing the country. Filled with vivid portraits of politicians and army officers, revolutionaries and reformers, and written in the “absorbing” (Economist) style for which Preston is so revered, A People Betrayed is the first historical work to examine the continuities of political unrest and national anxiety in Spain up until the present, providing a chilling reminder of just how fragile democracy remains in the twenty-first century.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725-1798
Author: Jacques Casanova De SeingaltPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522964483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
According to Wikipedia: "Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) was a Venteitian adveturers and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (History of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. So famous a womanizer was the Italian-born libertine Giacomo Casanova that, a full two centuries after his death, his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. But for the years he spent in the employ of Count Waldstein of Bohemia as a librarian, Casanova, "the world's greatest lover" at one time the company of European royalty, popes and cardinals, and man known to the likes of Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart would have been consigned to obscurity." Includes unique illustrations.