During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's dictatorship), this collection of essays explores the transnational bond and the intercultural exchanges between these two communities, using race as a fundamental critical category. The study of travelogues, memoirs, documentaries, interviews, press coverage, comics, literary works, music, and performances by iconic figures such as Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Ramon Gomez de la Serna, as well as the experiences of ordinary individuals such as African American nurse Salaria Kea, invite an examination of the ambiguities and paradoxes that underlie this relationship: among them, the questionable and, at times, surprising racial representations of blacks in Spanish avant-garde texts and in the press during the years of Franco's dictatorship; African Americans very unique view of the Spanish Civil War in light of their racial identity; and the oscillation between fascination and anxiety when these two communities look at each other.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: 1808-1814
• Chapter 2: 1814-1833
• Chapter 3: 1833-1844
• Chapter 4: 1844-1868
• Chapter 5: 1868-1876
• Chapter 6: 1876-1898
• Conclusions
• Sources and Bibliography
• Index.
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Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years, offers a fresh perspective on this century, showing how and why elements of backwardness and modernity ran in parallel through Spain. Bounded by the military and imperial crises of 1808 and 1898, this study pays special attention to the experience of war on politics and society, and integrates the latest historical debates in its analysis.
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Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom had dramatically turned to bust, a large chunk of the nation's banking system was in state hands, businesses were closing across the country, debt was spiralling out of control and unemployment levels had reached a record high. AFTER THE FALL presents a rich and vivid portrait of contemporary Spain at a critical moment in the country's history. The book tells the story of Spain's long boom and sudden bust, the brutal economic crisis that followed, and the political and social aftershocks that reverberate to this day. It explores the origins of the separatist movement in Catalonia, and its bitter clash with the Spanish government that culminated in a failed secession referendum and a divisive declaration of independence. It looks at the legacy of the Civil War and Franco dictatorship, and the continuing struggle over historical memory in Spain today. Based on five years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, AFTER THE FALL takes the reader from the offices of power in Madrid and Barcelona to the villages of the Basque country, still haunted by the memory of political violence, and to the towns of Andalusia, where an entire generation has seen its economic hopes shattered. It describes how the country has been changed by the experience of migration, and why - after decades at the margins - the far-right eventually made a return to Spanish politics. For all the problems and challenges facing Spain today, we see that amid the ruins of the crisis, the search for a new Spanish model is already underway.
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• El rey sabio
• The lawgiver and the law
• Creating a dynasty
• The king and his people
• Defender of the faith
• The defense of the realm
• Litigants, judges, and lawyers
• The judicial process
• Marriage, family, and inheritance
• The law of persons
• The law of property
• Trade and commerce
• Crime and punishment
• The law of the non-Christian peoples
• The juridical achievement of Alfonso X.

In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
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• El rey sabio
• The lawgiver and the law
• Creating a dynasty
• The king and his people
• Defender of the faith
• The defense of the realm
• Litigants, judges, and lawyers
• The judicial process
• Marriage, family, and inheritance
• The law of persons
• The law of property
• Trade and commerce
• Crime and punishment
• The law of the non-Christian peoples
• The juridical achievement of Alfonso X.

In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
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• "War of blood and fire" : Puerto Rico
• Realms of gold : Mexico
• Fountain of eternal youth : La Florida
• Amazon women & Californian dreams : Baja California
• "Naked and barefoot" : the continent crossed
• The seven cities of Cíbola : New Mexico
• An Inca's tale, La Florida : the deep south
• "Hang all the Lutherans" : the Atlantic Coast
• Poetry & conquest : New Mexico
• God & government : New Mexico
• Po'pay's Pueblo revolt : New Mexico
• Manhunt beyond the Rio Grande : Texas
• Padre Kino, the Jesuit southwest : Arizona
• Love & the Comanche Dawn : Texas
• Los Anza & the Apaches : el Gran Norte
• Los Gálvez & el Gran Norte : California & Sonora
• Junípero Serra, paradise gained : California
• Hard road to paradise : Arizona & California
• Half a continent is Spanish : Louisiana & Alaska
• The governors : Louisiana & New Mexico
• "Gálvez, Spanish hero of the American Revolution" : the deep south
• Apogee & disaster : Canada & Spain
• Mexican independence : New Spain & México
• Nemesis, Andrew Jackson : Florida
• The Alamo & San Jacinto : Texas
• The Mexican-American War : México
• Epilogue: Puerto Rico, 1898.

"An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died, few triumphed. Some were cruel, some were curious, some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching. Theirs was a frontier world which Spain struggled to control in the face of Indian resistance and competition from France, Britain, and finally the United States. In the 1800s, Spain lost it all. Goodwin tells this history through the lives of the people who made it happen and the literature and art with which they celebrated their successes and mourned their failures. He weaves an epic tapestry from these intimate biographies of explorers and conquerors, like Columbus and Coronado, but also lesser known characters, like the powerful Gálvez family who gave invaluable and largely forgotten support to the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War; the great Pueblo leader Popay; and Esteban, the first documented African American. Like characters in a great play or a novel, Goodwin's protagonists walk the stage of history with heroism and brio and much tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.

• La genèse d'un monde colonial (fin XVe-XVIIe siècle)
• Le temps des découvertes (1492-1520)
• Le contexte des expéditions océaniques européennes
• La naissance d'un "Nouveau Monde"
• Christophe Colomb et le voyage des Indes
• L'émergence du Nouveau Monde
• La découverte d'un continent
• Une exploitation coloniale
• De la conquête à la colonisation de l'Amérique ibérique
• Les étapes d'une conquête
• Des années 1520 aux années 1530
• Des années 1530 aux années 1550
• Des années 1550 aux années 1570
• Les mécanismes de la conquête
• Les hommes de la conquête
• Une entreprise privée
• Conquête, contrôle territorial et capitalisme commercial
• Les modalités de la conquête
• Une conquête militaire
• Une conquête religieuse
• L'impact démographique de la conquête
• Gouverner l'Amérique coloniale
• Le pouvoir métropolitain sur l'Amérique
• La gestion ibérique de la navigation atlantique
• Le besoin d'instances politiques
• Des instances de contrôle
• Les structures du pouvoir aux Amériques
• L'administration centrale aux Amériques
• L'exercice du pouvoir aux niveaux régional et local
• Le souci de l'efficacité
• Entre renforcement et impuissance de l'État colonial en Amérique
• Un souci permanent de réforme
• Un univers colonial (XVIe-XVIIe siècle)
• De la "conquête spirituelle" à l'administration de la foi
• Le projet missionnaire
• Des encomiendas aux doctrinal : débats et tâtonnements
• "Le blanc manteau" des villages de réduction
• Administrer la foi dans un cadre colonial
• Maillage administratif et encadrement spirituel
• Église et contrôle social aux Amériques
• Le poids du quotidien colonial
• Une Église au coeur du système colonial
• Ébauche d'un bilan pour l'évangélisation ibérique
• Des économies coloniales : exclusif, monopoles et contrebande
• Les trésors des Indes : mine, terre et grand commerce
• Le rêve minier
• L'attrait de la terre
• Le grand commerce colonial : un système à monopole
• De la fiscalité coloniale à la fraude et à la contrebande
• L'affirmation d'unités économiques régionales américaines
• Une société coloniale : villes et campagnes d'Ibéro-Amérique
• Le monde des élites coloniales
• L'exaltation de l'identité ibérique
• L'attrait des symboles nobiliaires et du pouvoir
• Le primat de la richesse
• Le monde du travail
• La communauté paysanne : le monde de l'indianité
• Le monde des villes coloniales
• Le monde du salariat
• La main-d'oeuvre servile
• Dynamismes, ajustements et tensions (XVIIIe siècle)
• Le temps des renouveaux impériaux ?
• La progressive élaboration d'un nouveau cadre administratif
• Les réformes institutionnelles
• "Hommes neufs et habitudes anciennes" : un renouvellement des agents royaux ?
• De nouveaux dynamismes économiques ?
• La reprise minière
• Un dynamisme économique aux effets contrastés
• L'ébauche de nouvelles géographies impériales
• L'Amérique ibérique : entre expansions territoriales et enjeu des rivalités européennes
• La reprise de l'expansion coloniale ibérique
• Des empires au coeur des enjeux atlantiques européens
• Une chrétienté aux Amériques

• L'encadrement religieux aux Amériques
• Clergé régulier et sécularisation des paroisses
• Entre Rome et la Péninsule : une Église, deux souverainetés
• L'Église dans la société coloniale américaine
• Le poids économique de l'Église
• La montée du clergé séculier
• La fonction éducative de l'Église
• Une forteresse créole
• Regain évangélisateur et normalisation coloniale
• La reprise de l'action missionnaire
• La police des esprits
• Une société en tension
• Les évolutions profondes d'une société coloniale
• Le temps long des évolutions démographiques
• L'irrésistible ascension du monde métis
• L'affirmation de lAmérique urbaine
• Continuité et ajustements au sein du monde colonial
• Élites sociales et pouvoir de l'argent
• La rivalité entre Créoles et Péninsulaires : discours et pratiques
• Évolutions et adaptations du monde rural indigène
• Vers une déstabilisation de l'ordre colonial
• Le temps des révoltes
• L'ouverture aux idées nouvelles.

"La "découverte" des Amériques par les Ibériques marque le début d'une confrontation entre deux mondes qui, jusqu'alors, s'ignoraient. Une telle situation, totalement inattendue, ne laisse indemne aucun des acteurs impliqués. De cette "rencontre" entre deux univers que tout distingue et vécue d'emblée comme un "choc", émerge progressivement un "monde nouveau". La phase de conquête - déléguée par les monarques de la Péninsule aux conquistadors via des capitulaciones -jette les bases d'une domination sans partage imposée aux vaincus avant de céder la place à une colonisation encadrée par les représentants aux Indes des deux couronnes. L'affirmation de ce monde colonial va de pair avec la stabilisation de structures - administratives, sociales, économiques, religieuses et culturelles - qui façonnent des sociétés originales dont les métissages constituent l'un des principaux traits."--Page 4 of cover.