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One hundred years of teaching, research, and innovation in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Birthplace and enduring leadership of the discipline in Mexico

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
The teaching of chemical engineering in Mexico started in 1925 at the Faculty of Chemistry (FQ) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Academic institutions, research centres, chemical companies, technological developments, highly trained personnel, and scientific contributions are part of the legacy from FQ‐UNAM.
Patricia Pérez‐Salinas, Alberto Rosas‐Aburto, Martín G. Hernández‐Luna, Aida Gutiérrez‐Alejandre, Eduardo Vivaldo‐Lima   +4 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Ressenya del llibre: Rubio Albarracín, Josep-Enric (2023). Les cendres del fènix

Ítaca
Ressenya del llibre: Rubio Albarracín, Josep-Enric (2023). Les cendres del fènix. Catarroja: Editorial Afers. 148 p. ISBN 978-84-18618-47-5.
Ivan Carbonell Iglesias
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Primo Levi i la raó anamnètica

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 1999
Sumant-se a la convicció pròpia del pensament jueu que l'única facultat capazde sostenir satisfactòriament una ètica és la memòria, en una superació del dualisme entre l'ètica racional i les ètiques de la compassió o la simpatia, l'autora evoca l'obra ...
Marta Tafalla
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

L’ascensió a la muntanya i la rememoració de la història: Interpretacions de Sierra Nevada en el muntanyisme del segle XIX

Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2017
Generalment, la geografia cultural ha plantejat la relació entre la memòria i l’espai geogràfic com a part dels discursos d’identitat nacional, obviant altres particularitats subjectives suscitades pel contacte físic de la materialitat del paisatge.
Carlos Cornejo Nieto
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &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
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Ferran Torrent, un viatge a l’heterodòxia

Ítaca, 2014
Ferran Torrent ha conjuminat les paraules novel·la negra, València i èxit. Hem accentuat la seua capacitat per a construir els personatges i diàlegs, la ironia i l’escepticisme de plantejament orquestral, o la capacitat de descriure la societat ...
Andrea Robles
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
wiley   +1 more source

Introducción al monográfico "Imaginarios de la reconciliación en la España democrática"

Cercles: revista d'Història Cultural
Aquest monogràfic analitza els imaginaris de la reconciliació a l’Espanya democràtica des del final de la dictadura franquista fins a l’actualitat. Des d’una perspectiva d’història cultural de la política, s’examinen els discursos i les representacions ...
Javier Javier Muñoz Soro, Sara Santamaría Colmenero   +1 more
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