Title:Pensar la Historia, celebrar el pasado: Fiestas y conmemoraciones nacionales, siglos XIX-XX
Author(s):PEIRÓ, Ignacio; ALARES LÓPEZ, GustavoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:El dossier «Pensar la Historia, celebrar el pasado. Fiestas y conmemoraciones nacionales siglos XIX-XX» que ocupa buena parte de las páginas de este número explora las relaciones entre pasado y conmemoración desde múltiples ...
Title:Polish Risorgimento: Visions of the modern Polish nation and their Italian foundations
Author(s):JUREK, LidiaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book offers an opportunity to look at the genesis of national identity as it was constructed in a specific stateless and multicultural context through cultural transfer and the impact of the contemporary media. It ...
Title:The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt, 1555-1590
Author(s):VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-90). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the ...
Title:Portraits of the Nation: Stamps, coins, and banknotes in Belgium and Switzerland, 1880-1945
Author(s):SCHWARZENBACH, AlexisDate:1999Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Portraits of the Nation offers a fascinating insight into the construction and development of national identity in two multilingual countries—Belgium and Switzerland. This book not only shows that multilingualism was no ...
Title:Portugal, The Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia
Author(s):MATTHEE, Rudi; FLORES, JorgeDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Portuguese were the first Europeans to play a major commercial, military and diplomatic role in the Persian Gulf basin. They first appeared before Hormuz in 1507, established a toll house on the island in 1515, and ...
Title:Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800
Author(s):BETHENCOURT, Francisco; CURTO, Diogo RamadaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays in this 2007 volume treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative ...
Title:Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840
Author(s):BOUWERS, Eveline G.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings ...
Title:Raccontare e inventare: storia, memoria e trasmissione storica della Resistenza armata in Italia
Author(s):WINTERHALTER, CeciliaDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:L'oggetto di questo saggio sulla Seconda Guerra Mondiale e sulla Resistenza armata in Italia è il racconto che viene «inventato» per narrare gli eventi passati o la memoria selettiva. Si tratta di uno studio su storia e ...
Title:Railways and the formation of the Italian state in the nineteenth century
Author(s):SCHRAM, AlbertDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. It shows that while the ...