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Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century**
Abstract Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars’ interest in the “exotic” languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropological aspects.
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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We provide instrumental meteorological data recovered for Extremadura region (interior SW Iberia), from 1826 to mid‐20th century. Meteorological variables such as air temperature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, wind direction and humidity, among others, were retrieved.
José M. Vaquero +11 more
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Property rights and contracts were important to the legal foundations of the Spanish Empire from the sixteenth century. The recognition of the property rights of indigenous people was part of the legal foundations of empire, but offered weak protection from the commercial logic of imperialism.
Julia McClure
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid
Abstract This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests ...
Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo
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Documentos sobre Enrique IV de Castilla y su tiempo. Volumen I [PDF]
El libro ofrece una colección de 4.152 documentos de la época de Enrique IV de Castilla (1454-1474) editados de forma resumida, entresacados de diversos archivos españoles.
Cantera Montenegro, Margarita +6 more
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El siguiente estudio de investigación analizará de manera pormenorizada las aplicaciones de un bordado de alta costura presentes en el vestido de color rosa que Audrey Hepburn utilizó para la película Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Basándose tanto en el
César Rodríguez Salinas +1 more
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Las redes sociales en la biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás. CSIC [PDF]
Sección: En directoEl impacto de la web social en la transmisión de información y en la comunicación entre personas es de tal magnitud en la actualidad que las bibliotecas no pueden ni deben mantenerse al margen y desaprovechar todas las posibilidades ...
Fernández Gómez, Sylvia +4 more
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