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Survival and long-term maintenance of tertiary trees in the Iberian Peninsula during the Pleistocene: first record of Aesculus L. (Hippocastanaceae) in Spain

open access: yes, 2007
Acknowledgments We wish to dedicate this paper to our friend and colleague Javier Maldonado, a palaeobotanist on our team who passed away in August 2004.
Gómez Manzaneque, Fernando   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Two species of Megachile Latreille, 1802 new to the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)

open access: yesBoletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología
Identification of material obtained in various bee surveys at several sites across Catalonia (NE Spain) has revealed the occurrence of two species of Megachile previously unrecorded from the Iberian Peninsula: Megachile (Megachile) alpicola and Megachile
Antonio Burguillos   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extreme Precipitation Events in Summer in the Iberian Peninsula and Its Relationship With Atmospheric Rivers

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2018
This study identifies and characterizes the importance of the Atmospheric Rivers in the extreme precipitation episodes that strike the Iberian Peninsula and Portugal during the extended summer months (April to September) between 1950 and 2007.
Alexandre M. Ramos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phoenician epigraphy in the Iberian peninsula

open access: yes, 2019
For a long time, Phoenician epigraphic finds in the Iberian peninsula were few in number, leading some scholars to assume that the practice of writing was limited amongst the Phoenicians in the far west of the Mediterranean (who had therefore played almost no part in the birth of Palaeohispanic scripts). However, the increase in the number of finds and,
openaire   +2 more sources

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

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

The Cenozoic vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula: A synthesis

open access: yes, 2009
Acknowledgements This work was performed as part of the PALEODIVERSITAS I (CGL 2006-02,956-BOS) and NECLIME research projects. We wish to thank Dr.
Pais, João   +15 more
core   +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
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

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