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Review of: Fabio López Lázaro, \u3ci\u3eThe Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Carlos Gómez-Centurión Jiménez , \u3ci\u3eAlhajas Para Soberanos: Los animales reales en el siglo XVIII: De las leoneras a las mascotas de cámara\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Teofilo F. Ruiz, \u3ci\u3eA King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Hugo García, \u3ci\u3eThe Truth About Spain: Mobilizing British Public Opinion, 1936-39\u3c/i\u3e
No full textIntroduction: Global Horizons and Local Interests in the Era of the Constitution of Cadiz
No full textEl pensamiento europeo sobre la revisión y moderación en los estatutos de limpieza de sangre a través de la razón de estado cristiana en tiempos de Felipe IV
No full textEn el presente artículo analizamos la evolución de los procesos de conversión y asimilación del grupo judeoconverso a la sociedad cristiana del Antiguo régimen. De la severa aplicación de los estatutos de limpieza de sangre durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVI, se pasa a una moderación y revisión de los mismos en tiempos de de Felipe IV para una asimilación pacífica del grupo de neófitos. Uno de los principales motivos de tal moderación fue la brecha social, visualizada en enfrentamientos entre cristianos viejos y nuevos, causada por la aplicación rígida de los estatutos. De tal forma, tratadistas, especialmente franciscanos y jesuitas envuelven la revisión de los estatutos de limpieza dentro de un marco jurídico-religioso que permita una asimilación pacífica en la sociedad católica del grupo de neófitos. Así, la ley divina y la ley natural o “ius naturalis” serán aunadas mediante la aplicación de la “razón de estado cristiana” muy presentes en el pensamiento europeo del momento. De este modo, nuestra hipótesis de partida se centra en ver si verdaderamente la razón de estado cristiana, argumentada por tratadistas de la época, tuvo como consecuencia una moderación en la aplicación de los estatutos de limpieza de sangre. Para responder a dicha pregunta analizamos un manuscrito inédito de época de Felipe IV, hecho por parte de un Inquisidor, en donde se pregunta la importancia de moderar los estatutos de limpieza de sangre. Al final, tales propuestas reformistas tuvieron escaso éxito debido a la presión ejercida por el grupo de cristianos viejos, reticentes a la moderación de los estatutos
Da Desconfiança à Aliança: Portugal e a África do Sul na defesa do “Reduto Branco”
No full textThis paper aims to analyze the diplomatic maneuver carried out by the Portuguese Government towards South Africa since the 1950’s until the military coup in Lisbon on the 25th April 1974. In October 1970, Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia initiated a formal military alliance coined as “Exercise ALCORA”. Its final aim was to defeat the pan-Africanism subversion in Southern Africa but it also became a mechanism to integrate the most important aspects of the military strategy of the “white redoubt”. The participation of Portugal in ALCORA was the result of its political maneuver towards South Africa since de 1950’s although Salazar and later Caetano were concerned and feared South African political hegemony and pretensions over Angola and Mozambique. In spite of the racial policy of both countries, Portugal was granted important financial and military support by South Africa because its government recognized Mozambique and Angola as its first line defense against the communist subversion. In fact, the degradation of the military situation in southern Angola in the late 1960’s definitely pushed those territories to South Africa\u27s strategic orbit
Review of Andrew Dowling, Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation
No full textReview of Richard Barker, Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground. Representation, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town. The Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War
No full textMoral Revenge of the Crowd in the 1854 Revolution in Madrid
No full textThe 1854 revolution in Spain has been relatively little studied. Here we try to understand and explain the phenomenon from a Cultural History perspective. In 1854 Spain suffered several Progresist-cut revolutions which took place caused by an unsustainable situation: the Conservative groups (called moderates) had held power for ten years, with politics of its last years being a nest of corruption, ornamented with anti-constitutional nuances. The situation was worsened by a famine, which stimulated a military led revolution, followed by a popular uprising. This was successful in Madrid, and promptly extended from here to various Spanish provinces. This article analyses the attacks that took place against the Conservative power groups. Studies the war in the streets, looking for popular justice in a sort of moral revenge of the multitude (paraphrasing Edward P. Thompson’s expression), by selectively targeting the symbols of power. It takes into account the collective mentalities, the constructive processes leading to the representations of power, the systems leading to the resistance against it and the mobilisation of the masses, with the specific manner of assimilation Liberalism undertook to put popular justice in place. The result was the triumph of Liberalism, which would sustain power between 1854 and 1856 (progressive biennium), popular victory that transformed the way the power looked back to that revolution