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  • Ladies of Honor and Merit

    Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain

    by Elena Serrano ...
    In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies such as these, as Elena Serrano describes in her book, were founded on the idea that laypeople could contribute to the advancement of their country by ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Chemical Element

    Chemistry's Contribution to Our Global Future

    Edited by Javier García-Martínez, Elena Serrano-Torregrosa ...
    In the International Year of Chemistry, prominent scientists highlight the major advances in the fight against the largest problems faced by humanity from the point of view of chemistry, showing how their science is essential to ensuring our long-term survival. Following the UN Millennium Development Goals, the authors examine the ten most critical areas, including energy, climate, food, water and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Chemistry Education

    Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends

    Edited by Elena Serrano-Torregrosa, Javier García-Martínez ...
    Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 AwardThis comprehensive collection of top-level contributions provides a thorough review of the vibrant field of chemistry education. Highly-experienced chemistry professors and education experts cover the latest developments in chemistry learning and teaching, as well as the pivotal role of chemistry for shaping a more sustainable future ... Read more

    $194.00 USD

  • Histories of Sensibilities

    Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment

    Edited by Isabel Burdiel, Ester García Moscardó, Elena Serrano ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
    Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment.From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnic, political, and cultural groups to define their ... Read more

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    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain’s northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

    Edited by Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, Manuel Delgado ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies. ... Read more

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  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

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  • Colonial Counterpoint

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    by D. R. M. Irving ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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  • Sonidos Negros

    On the Blackness of Flamenco

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    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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  • Geographies of Philological Knowledge

    Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic

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    Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain's national epic, the ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

    by Xon de Ros, Jessamy Harvey, Joanna Evans, Joyce Tolliver, Laura Lonsdale, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Louise M Haywood, Professor Margaret R Greer, Maria Ana Beatriz Masera Cerutti, Mónica Bolufer Peruga0, Nieves Baranda1, Geraldine Hazbun3, Roberta Quance4, Rosanna Cantavella5, Susan Kirkpatrick6, Alexander W Samson7, Professor Andrew M. Beresford8, Carmen Fracchia9, Frances Lannon0, Georgina Dopico-Black1, Helena Buffery2 ...
    After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and ... Read more

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