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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico

Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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The Art of Assemblage at La Venta

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 832-857, September 2022., 2022
How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved around the landscape, their new configurations and associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new kinds of ritual interaction.
Claudia Brittenham
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Teudefred and the king. On the manuscript Carcassonne G 6 and the intertwining of localities and centre in the Carolingian world

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022
Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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The Basque Heroine Libe and the Nationalist Press (1895–1936)

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 77-97, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The founder of Basque nationalism, Sabino Arana, wrote Libe. Melodrama dramático (a dramatic melodrama) in 1902. Arana placed the heroine ‘Libe’ in a medieval battle. She was created to convey what the role of Basque women should be in defending their Homeland. Arana died shortly after the script was published in 1903. His successors attempted
Leyre Arrieta
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HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’

German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021
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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Josep Fontana, in memóriam

Revista de Historia, 2018
Cuando, pocas horas después de su fallecimiento, me pidieron para una revista digital una semblanza de Josep Fontana, se me ocurrió empezar ofreciéndole mi homenaje personal y escribí lo siguiente: “Dejando al margen mi profundo sentimiento de orfandad ...
Carlos Martínez Shaw
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Guía de recursos audiovisuales para la enseñanza del trabajo social

Miscelánea Comillas, 2022
A lo largo de su trayectoria profesional el profesor Manuel Gil fue recopilando diversos materiales audiovisuales que le sirvieron para impartir sus clases de Trabajo Social en la Universidad Pontificia Comillas.
María Pachecho Turnes
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Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law

WIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large‐scale weather and climate research projects. ABSTRACT With a few exceptions, the history of climate studies is currently dominated by work on scientists from North America and Europe, often those with ...
Robert Luke Naylor
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Homenaje a Rosario Camacho. Por Antonio Bonet Correa.

Boletín de Arte, 2013
En el actual panorama de la Historia del Arte en España hay que tener en cuenta las valiosísimas aportaciones, tanto científicas como literarias, producidas por las numerosas e importantes figuras femeninas dedicadas a la docencia y a la investigación de
Antonio Bonet Correa
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