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Review of: Hamilton M. Stapell, \u3ci\u3eRemaking Madrid: Culture, Politics, and Identity after Franco\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Michael Ugarte, \u3ci\u3eAfricans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, \u3ci\u3eSlavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World\u3c/i\u3e
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Portraits of Children at the Spanish Court in the Seventeenth Century: The Infanta Margarita and the Young King Carlos II
No full textPortraits of children at the Spanish Court during the seventeenth century clearly reflect the various stages of their education and upbringing quite significantly. However, visual signs indicating the development and changing status of the child portrayed have to be identified and analyzed if the full meaning of these portraits is to be understood. In the present article, the educational treatises of the period are explored for the light they throw on concepts that were then current in relation to children’s development. Royal children´s portraits will be shown to reflect the education they received and the various stages through which they passed. First, however, it is necessary to explain how children were thought to move from infancy to childhood (puericia) and acquire the especially important “use of reason”
Review of: Laura J. Beard, \u3ci\u3eActs of Narrative Resistance: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Americas\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips, \u3ci\u3eA Concise History of Spain\u3c/i\u3e
No full textDo You Feel More \u3ci\u3eMadrileño\u3c/i\u3e or \u3ci\u3eEspañol\u3c/i\u3e? : Making the Case for Regionalism in the Capital, 1979-1990
No full textIn contrast to the tendency by nearly everyone – scholars, journalists, and politicians – to associate Madrid with a kind of vague national identity or a monolithic Spanishness, this article makes the case for a more complex reality in the capital between 1979 and 1990. Specifically, it presents evidence from sociological surveys in order to show the development of a new regional identity in Madrid. This is not to say regionalism simply replaced national identity, or any other pre-existing form of affiliation in the capital. Instead, regionalism became one axis of a multiple set of overlapping identities after the transition to democracy
