The History of Spain
Title | The History of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce E. Salisbury |
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Release | 2017-06-16 |
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ISBN | 9781629974279 |
Bilingualism and Identity
Title | Bilingualism and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Mercedes Niño-Murcia |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2008-04-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027290431 |
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in three regions where Spanish coexists with other languages. The cases are Spanish-English contact in the United States, Spanish-indigenous language contact in Latin America, and Spanish-regional language contact in Spain. This is the first comparativist book to examine language and identity construction among bi- or multilingual speakers while keeping one of the languages constant. The sociolinguistic standing of Spanish varies among the three regions depending whether or not it is a language of prestige. Comparisons therefore afford a strong constructivist perspective on how linguistic ideologies affect bi/multilingual identity formation.
Speaking of Spain
Title | Speaking of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Feros |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 067497932X |
Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define “Spain” concretely, or say with any confidence who were Spaniards and who were not. Speaking of Spain offers an analysis of the cultural and political forces that transformed Spain’s diverse peoples and polities into a unified nation. Antonio Feros traces evolving ideas of Spanish nationhood and Spanishness in the discourses of educated elites, who debated whether the union of Spain’s kingdoms created a single fatherland (patria) or whether Spain remained a dynastic monarchy comprised of separate nations. If a unified Spain was emerging, was it a pluralistic nation, or did “Spain” represent the imposition of the dominant Castilian culture over the rest? The presence of large communities of individuals with Muslim and Jewish ancestors and the colonization of the New World brought issues of race to the fore as well. A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily of pure blood and “white,” unlike converted Jews and Muslims, Amerindians, and Africans. Gradually Spaniards settled the most intractable of these disputes. By the time the liberal Constitution of Cádiz (1812) was ratified, consensus held that almost all people born in Spain’s territories, whatever their ethnicity, were Spanish.
A Concise History of Spain
Title | A Concise History of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Phillips, Jr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2010-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521607213 |
Engaging history of the rich cultural, social and political life of Spain from prehistoric times to the present.
The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad
Title | The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad PDF eBook |
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Genre | Balts (Indo-European people) |
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Conclude with reflections on Spain's recent history. Look into such subjects as the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Spain's contemporary links with Latin America, separatist movements within the country, its new secularism and religious freedoms, its popularity as a travel destination, and its diverse economy. Contemplate why this great land stands on a crossroads of the future.
An American Language
Title | An American Language PDF eBook |
Author | Rosina Lozano |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520969588 |
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.
The Development of Modern Spain
Title | The Development of Modern Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Tortella Casares |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780674000940 |
This reinterpretation of the history of modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the threshold of the twenty-first century explains the surprising changes that took Spain from a backward and impoverished nation, with decades of stagnation, civil disorder, and military rule, to one of the ten most developed economies in the world. The culmination of twenty years' work by the dean of economic history in Spain, founder of the Revista de Historia Económica and recipient of the Premio Rey Juan Carlos, Spain's highest honor for an academic, the book is rigorously analytical and quantitative, but eminently accessible. It reveals views and approaches little explored until now, showing how the main stages of Spanish political history have been largely determined by economic developments and by a seldom mentioned factor: human capital formation. It is comparative throughout, and concludes by applying the lessons of Spanish history to the plight of today's developing nations.