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Socialists of Rural Andalusia Unacknowledged Revolutionaries of The Second Republic
$18.16
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A new perspective on the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War emerges from this study of the Socialists of a western Andalusian town. Although Andalusian Socialists contributed substantially to the radicalization of the Spanish countryside, they have been largely ignored by scholars, who have concentrated instead on the activities of the anarchists.
This book studies the Socialists of one particular pueblo, examining their considerable accomplishments in the Second Republic, their repression in and after the Civil War, and their place in postwar Spanish historical memory. It views the radicalization of Socialists as stemming, not primarily from frustration over their failure to bring about land reform, which is the usual interpretation, but just as much from their success in revolutionizing labor relations.
As ethnography, this study is experimental, focusing on a group of people and what happened to them through time rather than on a community or place. Its method may be characterized as serial ethnography, drawing upon oral history, family history, newspapers, and analysis of town archives to reconstruct the pueblo Socialists' experience of the Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship. It interprets pueblo experience in terms of Andalusian concepts of autonomy, hope, kinship, patronage, and politics.
Throughout, the author relates the conflict and change experienced in one pueblo to the experience of other locales similarly situated in the broader dynamic of Spanish national politics. The book includes 18 illustrations and 7 maps.
George A. Collier is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, and the author of The Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas.
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Title Socialists of rural Andalusia: unacknowledged revolutionaries of the Second Republic
Author George Allen Collier
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 0804714118, 9780804714112
Length 253 pages
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The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe
$26.59
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Exploring autobiographical texts written by European urban craftsmen from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, this wide-ranging book studies memoirs, diaries, family chronicles, travel narratives, and other forms of personal writings from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and England. In the process, it considers the motivations of the authors, the changing forms and emphases of artisan narratives, and, more generally, the significance of written self-expression in early modern popular culture.
By analyzing reading and writing as practices laden with social meaning, this work aims to illuminate the changing role of the lower classes and other groups considered marginal in the history of literature and literacy. It uncovers an "Icarian" logic by which writing about the self and one's immediate and private world developed as a complex response to widely shared expectations regarding the cultural and political subordination of craftsmen and others relegated to the margins of public life and discourse.
The book also contributes contrary interdisciplinary debate on the nature and evolution of ancient writing. It draws upon those currents within literary studies, such as feminist criticism, which favor a more flexible approach to the study of first-person narrative than that adopted by traditional literary critics and historians of ideas. It also argues for revising the standard history of autobiography, eschewing the teleological presentation of a small handful of classi texts in favor of a more nuanced trajectory in which a wide range of social actors helped hape the emerging patterns of modern self-understanding and expression.
James S. Amelang is Professor of Early Modern History at the Universidad Antononia de Madrid. He is the author, most recently, of A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the Barcelona Tanner Miquel Parets.
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Parc Güell
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Image of a building taken at Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain
Parc Güell
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Image of a building taken at Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain
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Windows at Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain.
Santa Maria del Mar
$26.99
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Main altar of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona, Catalonia, the best example of Catalan Gothic architecture in the world.
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