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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Quando os santos recolhem ao leito: mística, santidade e modernidade em Portugal entre os séculos XVII e XX

open access: yesLusitania Sacra, 2013
Este estudo pretende investigar as razões profundas para uma mutação essencial no modelo de santidade em Portugal durante o século XVII. Essa mutação, que é bastante nítida nos processos inquisitoriais de falsa santidade, teve lugar em meados do século ...
António Vitor Ribeiro
doaj   +1 more source

“Não caberião em todas as paredes delle os seus retratos”. Galerias apologéticas luso-italianas das ordens religiosas: entre elencos eruditos e listas iconográficas (sécs. XVII-XVIII)

open access: yesLusitania Sacra, 2017
O estudo visa focar a atenção sobre distintas obras literárias luso-italianas, produzidas pelas ordens religiosas, nomeadamente dominicanos e teatinos, entre os séculos XVII e XVIII.
Paola Nestola
doaj   +1 more source

The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A relação entre e a Intendência Geral da Polícia e as magistraturas régias periféricas: o caso de Óbidos (1780-1806)

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de História, 2023
A crescente monopolização do sistema judiciário pelo Estado culminou com a criação da Intendência Geral da Polícia da Corte e do Reino em 1760. Esta instituição articulou-se com as magistraturas régias periféricas com vista à punição dos crimes e à ...
Dina Catarina Duarte Alves
doaj   +1 more source

Isolated in the highlands, found in the museum: A new species of Characidium (Crenuchidae) from a Bolivian National Park, with a CT scan revealing features

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract A new species of Characidium is described from a small, isolated river in the highland areas of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. The new taxon can be diagnosed by the presence of a relatively broad and conspicuous dark midlateral stripe extending from the tip of snout to the base of the caudal fin, markedly darker than the vertical ...
Leonardo Oliveira‐Silva   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
wiley   +1 more source

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