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New Spain’s Cartography within Global Geography: José Antonio de Alzate’s Maps of North America Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 José María García Redondo
Several printed versions of José Antonio de Alzate’s Nuevo Mapa Geográphico de la América Septentrional (1768) are known to exist. Despite his progressive changes to the map, the Mexican polymath saw it as a single “cartographic model” that he perfected over time. This article analyses his sources and working methods, as well as his contacts with other authors in New Spain and Europe. By distinguishing
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Circulation and Contacts in Sixteenth Century New Cartography: Spain, Portugal and Italy Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 José María Moreno Madrid
Cartographic information was highly coveted in sixteenth century Europe, especially when it came from Portugal or Spain. Maps and nautical charts produced in the Iberian Peninsula were loaded with sensitive information about the new lands discovered, which made them the object of desire of rival or curious powers. Faced with this, the Spanish and Portuguese institutions tried to limit the excessive
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Making a Global Image of the World: Science, Cosmography and Navigation in Times of the First Circumnavigation of Earth, 1492-1522 Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Antonio Sánchez
The voyages of exploration and discovery during the period of European maritime expansion and the immense amount of information and artefacts they produced about our knowledge of the world have maintained a difficult, if not non-existent, relationship with the main historiographical lines of the history of early modern science. This article attempts to problematize this relationship based on a historical
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Mapping Skies and Continents: The Production of Two Portuguese Scientific Atlases in the Era of Napoleonic Expansion (1799-1813) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Iris Kantor,Thomás A. S. Haddad
To what extend the circulation of scientific knowledge was shaped by the European imperial geopolitics in the late-eighteenth century? Recruited to fulfill tasks increasingly considered essential to the very workings of imperial administrations, scientific practitioners of the time paradoxically seem to make use precisely of this encroachment in state apparatuses to secure some degree of autonomy for
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Cartography in dispute: the frontiers of Brazil in Abbé Raynal’s Histoire des Deux Indes Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Junia Ferreira Furtado
This article analyzes the frontier line(s) of Brazil proposed by the Portuguese ambassadors (D. Vicente de Sousa Coutinho, D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, and Luís de Sousa Coutinho, the Viscount of Balsemão), drawn on maps and documents sent to Abbé Raynal when he was preparing the 1780 edition of his famous Histoire des Deux Indes. This was accompanied by an Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe
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On the Translation of Founding Narratives into Cartographic Images: America in Le Testu’s Cosmographie Universelle (1556) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Carolina Martínez
This article analyzes the links between the first travel accounts of the New World and the production of cartographic images of America in Guillaume Le Testu’s Cosmographie Universelle (1556). Produced in 1556 and dedicated to Admiral of France Gaspard de Coligny, the Norman pilot’s manuscript atlas was created in the context of growing French colonial interest in Terra Brasilis. The transposition
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Juarez and Maximilian. Stories and interpretations in film and literature Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 María del Sol Morales Zea
This paper approaches the relations between history and fiction through analysis of two works: the Franz Werfel drama’s Juarez und Maximilian (1924), and the Miguel Contreras Torres movie’s, Juárez y Maximiliano (1934). Both works intend to tell us the happened during the Second Mexican Empire, Werfel with the Austrian gaze and Contreras with the Mexican gaze. We go inside to biography and context
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Personal Empires: Mapping, Local Networks, and the Control of Land in the Lower Mississippi Valley Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Matthew E. Franco
The Louisiana and Florida territories sat at the intersection of empires in the late eighteenth century. Between 1750 and 1820 the area was controlled by the French and Spanish empires, the emerging United States of America, as well as the Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. While political surveys produced images of the moving borders between sovereign powers, cadastral surveys show the constancy
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The Cartographer Sets Sail: Eyewitness Records and Early Modern Maps Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Chet Van Duzer
In this article I examine early nautical charts and isolarii, or island books illustrated with maps, for evidence that indicates the maps were made on the basis of first-hand observation by the cartographer. There are very few claims on early nautical charts that the charts were created based on the cartographers’ own observations. I suggest that these claims are rare because chart-making was more
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Medieval echoes. Reflection on political theories and cultural trends from European Middle Ages during American Wars of Independence and Between the States Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez
This article examines the influence of formulations and lines of European medieval thought and culture during the two main processes of American political history: the American Wars of Independence and Between the States. In these moments of enormous significance, we can perceive a series of formulations alive since Middle Age centuries; principles with a no evident but relevant influence in mentality
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Deans of humanitarianism and perfidy. The collaboration of the Diplomatic Missions of Argentina and Chile with the Francoist cause during the Spanish Civil War (and after), 1936-1969 Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Carlos Píriz
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, some thirty Diplomatic Missions opened their doors and create new sites for the reception of persecution victims under the protection of the right of asylum. However, beyond the humanitarian role, a tendentious collaboration of some of their delegates with the rebels could be seen from the beginning. Argentina and Chile, which held the Diplomatic Deanship
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Between modernity and tradition: the formation of a psychoanalytical culture during the Franco dictatorship Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Silvia Lévy Lazcano
The aim of this work is to analyze the process by which psychoanalysis categories joined scientific and popular culture in Francoism. To do so, we will start with the criticism and reinterpretations that different experts did on Freud’s theory to adapt it to the new political-social context. This analysis will allow us to show how reappropriation and signification of a progressive and modern theory
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Atomic Routes and Cultures for a New Narrative on Franco’s Regime Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Ana Romero de Pablos
A decision by two Spanish companies to start producing nuclear-based electrical energy was the beginning of a journey that led two Spanish engineers to the United States and Canada in 1957. They wanted to learn about the reactor technology that North American companies were developing, contact specialized consultants to explore possible consultancy services, and search out political, economic, and
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Front-page illustrations and political powers in Early Modern Spanish journalism Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Carmen Espejo-Cala,Francisco Baena Sánchez
This paper explores the representation of political powers in the front-page illustrations of Early Modern Spanish newspapers. The knowledge about Early Modern European journalism has undergone a remarkable development in recent decades: however, research on the form of the first newspapers is scarce. The paper presents a corpus of 162 news pamphlets and gazettes published in Seville between 1618 and
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Racism, Hispanidad and social hierarchy in medicalpsychiatric thought during early Francoism. The work by Misael Bañuelos (1936-1941) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Ricardo Campos
A range of discourse and racial proposals are analyzed and confronted in the article that were pursued from within Medicine and Psychiatry during early Francoism. In particular, Misael Bañuelo’s openly biologistic vision that was influenced by the racial theories put forward by Nazism are discussed. His confrontation with the racial conception sustained by followers of Hispanidad (Spanishness) and
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The cultural significance of physics and evolution in Francoist Spain: continuity and development in the autarchic period Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Clara Florensa,Xavier Roqué
Science took on several distinct uses and meanings under Francoism. It was exhibited as a token of intellectual prowess, deployed as a mighty diplomatic tool, applied as a resource for industry, and invoked in support of National Catholicism. However, in order to successfully fulfill all these roles, science had first to be cleansed and purified, for it was historically bound to materialism, atheism
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Constructing “Pure” and “Applied” Science in Early Francoism Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Agustí Nieto-Galan
The paper discusses several appropriations of the categories of “pure” and “applied” science (mainly in chemistry) in early Francoism. At the height of a crusade that criminalized “pure” science as inherently attached to the culture of the Second Spanish Republic, the category of “pure” assumed spiritual, religious and anti-materialist values in the early education policies of the new regime, in the
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Institutionalizing cultural Europeanism: between transnationalism and national identity (1948-1954) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Luis Domínguez Castro,José Ramón Rodríguez Lago
Cultural Europeanism is a variant of the process of European integration attested within the framework of the Cold War. It will be mostly anti-communist, although it will couch elements favouring West-East dialogue. The governments will promote an intergovernmental model based on multilateral cooperation and national identity, and put into practice in institutions such as the Western Union or the Council
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“The Faustian spirit of the technical world”. Mental illness and cultural criticism in Franco’s Spain Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Enric J. Novella
Taking into account the almost constitutive affinity of mental medicine and cultural criticism, it should not be surprising that, given its particular conflict with modernity, General Franco’s dictatorship was a period of intense flowering of conservative psychiatric essay writing, Starting from the fears of a possible physical and moral regression of “Hispanity” due to the artificiality of modern
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From arsenic to DDT: Pesticides, Fascism and the invisibility of toxic risks in the early years of Francoist Spain (1939-1953) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Silvia Pérez-Criado,José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez
This paper reviews the way in which Spanish agriculture climbed onto the pesticide treadmill. We claim that Fascist policies and expert advice assembled in the early 1940s accelerated the introduction of pesticides into Spanish agriculture and promoted the emergence of the Spanish pesticide industry in the times of autarky. Agricultural engineers were the key protagonists in this process, but other
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The Way to Mecca. Spanish State Sponsorship of Muslim Pilgrimage (1925-1972) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Jordi Moreras
The sponsorship of pilgrimage to Mecca by European colonial powers in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to transforming the hajj into the global phenomenon it is today. Spain also promoted Muslim pilgrimage from its zone of the Moroccan Protectorate, tentatively at first, and then more purposefully from 1937 onwards, continuing its sponsorship into the early 1970s, years after Morocco’s independence
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Untribing the (Post)-Colonial Spanish Archives: Material Records, Boundary-making and Linguistic Diversity within Northern Morocco’s Berberophones Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Araceli González Vázquez
This paper analyses the linguistic diversity among the Berberophones in northern Morocco in the period of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956). To do this, I focus on the documentary materials kept in digital archives, which allow us to go deeper into the knowledge of how Spaniards may have shown interest in Berberophony. In particular, I centre my analysis on the recognition of linguistic
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Traitorous Republic or Friendly Nation. Images of the United States, Patriotic Mobilizations and Nationalisms in the Basque Country in 1898 Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Coro Rubio Pobes
The Spanish-American War of 1898 produced a wave of Anti-Americanism in all Spain, very closely associated with a heated Spanishist rhetoric. It was also expressed in the Basque Country, but at the same time triggered the discovery by Basque nationalism of the United States as a “friendly nation” (an interpretation present in Basque nationalism throughout all its history). Both Spanish and Basque nationalisms
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‘Salt meat […] is prejudicial to the health of the troops’: the battles between doctors and the British Empire over army diet in the nineteenth-century Caribbean Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Ilaria Berti
Nineteenth-century British and Caribbean sources show that European colonists were constantly struggling to maintain their health in a little-understood tropical climate; they engaged in frequent discussion and the exchange of advice on the preservation of their health. This article reveals that the maintenance of a specific group of temporary migrants, those in the armed forces, was a significant
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Management and transformation of urban spaces in San Juan de Puerto Rico during the government of Miguel de la Torre (1823-1837) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Emilio José Luque Azcona
This article analyses aspects related to the development of the paving, lighting, sewerage and cleaning of streets and squares in the city of San Juan de Puerto Rico, during Miguel de la Torre’s government of the island (1823-1837). With this research we intend to offer a new and complementary view to the existing one on the management of this governor, who, along with the Cabildo, had powers in these
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Power through Language, the Language of Power: Equatoguinean Emixiles Facing Lingua Franca Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu
In 1968 Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain but inherited its cultural architecture. Current identity claims made by Equatoguinean emixiles (Ugarte’s term, 2010) are rooted in the social and territorial exclusion suffered by ethnic groups during their colonial past. In this paper I will explore the role that the Spanish language played in the identity construction of six Equatoguinean emixiles
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The Formation of North African Otherness in the Canary Islands from the 16th to 18th Centuries Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Juan Manuel Santana
The current study of the North Africans of the Canary Islands during the 16th-18th centuries represents a contribution to the question of the development of the Muslim stereotype in Spain. This population with origins almost exclusively in north-western Africa, an area known at the time as Barbary, was forcibly relocated to the islands. Most of the Old Christians at the moment of the Royal Decree of
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Between Tradition and Evangelisation: Marriage Ritualisation on Colonial and Contemporary Bioko Island Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Nuria Fernández Moreno
The start of the 20th century on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) coincides with the expansion of Spanish colonisation. Around 1910, the intense process of “Hispanicisation” began, totally disrupting native Bubi society. The colonial government, together with the intense evangelisation carried out on the island by the Catholic Church, weakened and modified Bubi power structures. Colonialism also provoked
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Colonial Spain in Africa: Building a Shared History from Memories of the Spanish Protectorate and Spanish Guinea Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
This article compares Spanish, Riffian and Equatorial Guinean memories to address Hispano-African history and understand their colonial experiences. Examining Africans’ voices in the 21st century from Postcolonial and Decolonial perspectives allows us to uncover Spanish colonial rhetoric about Moroccans and Equatorial Guineans and the racialised inequalities they had to face during the Spanish settlement
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Historical Intimacy in Malay Urban Core Configurations: A Comparative Analysis Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Illyani Ibrahim,Shireen Jahn Kassim,Alias Abdullah
This paper analyses the historical pre-Colonial configurations of a series of urban cores in Malay sites along the Straits of Melaka. The objective of this research is to identify the pattern and variations of each pre-Colonial royal urban core from the perspective of urban design principle such as “intimacy” and “walkability,” which can affect in a long term sustainable parameters such as the reduction
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The Indelible Markers of Twentieth-Century Spanish Antifeminism Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Teresa María Ortega López,Núria Félez Castañé
In twentieth-century Spain, the conservative political ideology maintained a gender discourse and an ideal of femininity that remained broadly unchanged. The democratic regimes established in the country, first after the reign of Alfonso XIII and then after the Franco dictatorship, did nothing to substantially fragment the country’s conservatism with regard to its proponents’ view of the function and
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Violencia física, violencia pública: a la búsqueda de mecanismos de dominación social Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Rafael Micó
The explanation of the worldwide spread and long-term maintenance of economic asymmetries and centralized and hierarchical political structures is a major concern for sociological and humanistic disciplines. This problem may be formulated as a paradox when exploited and victimized groups overtly support the social order that subdues them. Archaeology is able to address this problem from a broad and
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Professors, Charlatans, and Spiritists: The Stage Hypnotist in Late Nineteenth-Century English Literature Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Juan Marcos Bonet Safont
In this paper I will explore the stereotype of the stage hypnotist in fiction literature through the analysis of the novellas Professor Fargo (1874) by Henry James (1843-1916) and Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question (1890) by Hall Caine (1853-1931). Both Professor Fargo and Drink form part of a literary subgenre referred to variously as “Hypnotic Fiction”, “Trance Gothic” or “mesmeric texts”. The
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Urban archetypes applied to the study of cities in historic contemporary fictions. Symbolic urban structures in Age of Empires III and Bioshock Infinite Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Manuel Sánchez García
In “The Idea of a Town: Anthropology of Urban Form” (1976), architecture historian Joseph Rykwert defined six archetypes used in Etruscan rites for the foundation of urban settlements, which continued to be used in Classical Greece and Ancient Rome. He proposed to use these same categories for the study of cities in different eras, as a methodology to develop a global urban history. This paper projects
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Spanish colonial architecture as selective authenticity in historical digital games Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Fede Peñate Domínguez
espanolLa arquitectura colonial espanola como verosimilitud selectiva en videojuegos historicos.- Los edificios juegan un papel crucial en los videojuegos ambientados en el pasado, tanto como componentes interactivos como elementos de realismo historico. Sus funciones dependen del genero videoludico en el que esten representados: desde las posibilidades o dificultades que presentan a la hora de moverse
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Past, present and future of Virtual Reality: Analysis of its technological variables and definitions Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Adriana Paíno Ambrosio, M. Isabel Rodríguez Fidalgo
Developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology are currently arousing great scientific interest because in just a few years, VR has found its niche not only in the specialised public, but also in society in general and in different contexts, thanks to its many uses in different contexts and the decreasing price of VR viewing devices. To many, this technology may appear to be a novelty of the 21st
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Aesthetic uses of the past and limits in the reconstruction of historical spaces inside a videogame Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Alberto Venegas Ramos
Along the last years we have assisted to the release of a great number of videogames set in the past as, for example, Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft, 2017). This game offered the player the possibility to tour the city of Alexandria during the first century before Christ. My intention in this text is to develop the use of the past in the reconstruction of urban digital spaces through three video-game
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Conpsumptionscapes: videogame stereotypes and Latin-American cities environments. Case: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception / Uncharted 4: The Thief End Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Claudio Rossi
espanolConpsumptionscapes: estereotipos de videojuegos y ambientes urbanos de Latinoamerica. Casos de estudio: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception / Uncharted 4: The Thief End.- El paisaje de consumo se refiere al contexto en el que las necesidades basicas de una sociedad se determinan diariamente. La pequena tienda en el barrio y el mercado de calle, son estructuras arquitectonicas o espacios urbanos,
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Mass Media and the postmodern urban experience. From Metropolis to Blade Runner; from cinema to virtual reality Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Luis Miguel Lus Arana
Since their inception in the XIX Century, mass media have been crucial in shaping the image of the urban environment on our collective subconscious. In the early 20th Century, newspapers and magazines bustled with exacerbated but fascinating images of the city of the future, which appeared as hyperbolic portrayals of the perception that the contemporary citizen had of his own effervescing modern environment
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Swiss Humanitarian Aid in Spain and Southern France through Paul Senn’s camera (1937-1942) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Natascha Schmöller
The aim of this article is to provide a brief biography of the Swiss photographer Paul Senn, and through the analysis of his photographic journalism resulting from his trips to Spain from 1937 to 1939, add a nuance from the visual perspective of the Civil War and Swiss humanitarian aid for the victims in situ. His photography kept track of both the Republican victims during “La Retirada” as well as
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Help of neutral countries in the return to life of the Women deportees from Ravensbrück camp. The Spanish Women case Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Rose Duroux
Nothing more usual than to find Spanish refugees of 1939 in the French Resistance as they continued their fight against fascism. Therefore, hundreds of Spaniards where caught in the nets of the Vichy Government and the Gestapo. They are imprisoned in the French jails (Toulouse, Montluc, Fresnes, Compiegne, etc.) alongside the French Resistant women. Both will be piled up in wagons to the camps of the
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Fractured Childhoods, Identities in Transit: Humanitarian Aid for Central European Refugees from the United Kingdom Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Magdalena Garrido Caballero
The aim of this study is to address the situation of one of the most vulnerable social collectives: Central European refugee children and youths who fled the territories occupied by the Third Reich, thanks to the help provided by large number of private or public organizations, which resulted in the reception of about ten thousand refugees in the United Kingdom at the beginning of World War II. To
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Swiss humanitarian aid during the Spanish Civil War: The journey of Anna Siemsen and Regina Kägi-Fuchsmann Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado
Anna Siemsen’s and Regina Kagi-Fuchsmann’s journey to Spain in May 1937 resulted in two accounts regarding their experiences and views of Swiss humanitarian aid in the Civil War. The comparison between these two narratives makes it possible to study the role and the expression of fear, sadness and indignation at the bombing and the forced displacement of the civil population during the war. They are
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The Humanitarian Aid of the Joint Relief Commission of the International Red Cross in France to the civil population: children, women and internees (1940-1946) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Luiza Iordache Cârstea
The objective of this article is the analysis of the humanitarian relief work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the League of the Red Cross Societies through a joint body, the Joint Relief Committee (JRC), in France during the Second World War. Based on the treaties, convention and draft projects that shed light on the evolution and consolidation of the International Humanitarian
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Concha Zardoya: The Intellectual in Exile Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Mónica Jato
The intellectual life of Concha Zardoya (1914-2004) was shaped significantly by its transnational dimension. While Chile was her country of birth, Spain was the place where her university education took place and the United States where her academic and intellectual career developed. The atmosphere of political repression experienced in the 1940s in Spain forced her to look for a new home in the USA
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Women at university. Strategies and achievements of a secular presence in Latin America and Spain Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Consuelo Flecha-García, Alicia Itatí Palermo
This paper offers a descriptive and critical overview of the experience of the presence of women at university in Spain and several countries in Latin America. It focuses not just on how they embarked on different degrees, but also on the extent to which they went on to exercise professionally and the social barriers encountered at each step. It describes some of the strategies used on the paths followed
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A Caribbean Affair: The Liberalisation of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean, 1784-1791 Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 José Luis Belmonte Postigo
The liberalisation of the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean ended with a series of political measures which aimed to revitalise the practice of slavery in the region. After granting a series of monopoly contracts (asientos) to merchant houses based in other western European nations to supply slaves to Spanish America, the Spanish monarchy decided to liberalise import mechanisms. These reforms turned
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University women in Salamanca in the first third of the 20th century: quantification and profiles Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 María Luz De Prado Herrera
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the educational issue took on a greater political dimension. This general impulse benefited women’s education, fostered by legislation developed since the mid-nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. The Royal Order of March 8, 1910 facilitated the path opened by its predecessors and was a real revulsive for those women who would
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Knowledge transgressors: the incursion of women to science in Mexico, 19th-20th centuries Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Elva Rivera Gómez
The influence of feminist thought has been very important in the field of history, as it has revealed the invisibility of women in this disciplinary field, besides of studying power relations and their effects on the daily, private and public life in which both women and men are involved. Access to education, first primary, then secondary and later higher in Mexico, spanned for a period of more than
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Women and universities in El País (1977-2011): A methodological proposal for use of the ITCS for historical analysis Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Carlos G. Figuerola, Tamar Groves, Francisco J. Rodríguez
The practice of historical research in recent years has been substantially affected by the emergence of the so-called digital humanities. New computer tools have been appearing, software systems capable of processing vast quantities of information in ways that until recently were inconceivable. Text mining and social network analysis techniques are sophisticated instruments that can help render a more
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Women and science: Reflections on female access to university studies in Chile in the 20th century Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Romané V. Landaeta Sepúlveda
This text examines the different stages of women’s access to higher education in Chile throughout the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It inquires into the reflections that emerged on the need to educate women in Latin America, examines the scientific development of women in Chilean universities and It investigates the debates that emerged in the Chilean society
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The origins of casual culture: hooliganism and fashion in Great Britain Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 César Rodríguez Blanco
This dissertation attends to the study of football hooligans’ subcultures. In particular, it addresses a general synthesis of the beginnings of casual culture in Great Britain, within the context of the cultural transition process of the 1980s, and within a political, social and cultural context greatly influenced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. It makes a chronological review
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“What the great Alexander and the famous Julius Caesar wanted so much to see”. A commemoration of the fourth centenary of the Blue Nile Sources discovery by the Spanish Jesuit Pedro Páez Xaramillo (April 21th, 1618) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Víctor M. Fernández
On April 21, 1618 Pedro Paez visited the small spring where the waters of the Blue Nile rise before passing through Lake Tana. The site had been seen before by the military leader of the group of Ethio-Portuguese descendants of the Portuguese soldiers who had helped the Christian kingdom in the wars of 1541-1543, who passed the news to the missionaries shortly before 1607. In both cases the Ethiopian
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The satirical press and the struggle for cultural hegemony in Spain: a case study on La Traca, 1884-1938 Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Antonio Laguna Platero, Francesc Andreu Martínez Gallego
La Traca was a weekly magazine published in Valencia between 1884 and 1892 and between 1909 and 1938, with periods during which it was not published because of governmental censorship. Because it was written in Valencian, the vernacular language of where it was published, it did not go beyond being a magazine of local, or at most regional, interest, circulation and importance. However, its editor,
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Women of Salamanca. Academia, society and culture Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Virginia Ávila García
This research was carried out during a 2017 sabbatical spent at the University of Salamanca. My objectives were to recover the historical memory of the early figures of the feminist struggle in that university and its context in the years of Spain’s transition to democracy, elucidate the processes through which women sought institutional empowerment over almost four decades, and explain the diverse
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Micro-machismo and discrimination in academia: The violation of the right to equality in university Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Estrella Montes-López, Tamar Groves
The history of the university has been the history of a patriarchal institution traditionally dominated by men. The aim of this article is to show that women have suffered and continue suffering an unequal treatment in academia. The methodology used is qualitative, using forty-three in-depth interviews with academics of a Spanish public university. Experiences and practices that violate the right to
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“Between the Useful and the Beautiful”: Reading, Power and Pleasure in the Residencia de Señoritas (1930-1936) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Débora Betrisey Nadali
In the early 20th century many spaces of female sociability in Spain were characterised by the creation of habits, dispositions and forms of knowledge in University women. One of those spaces was the so-called Residencia de Senoritas [the Young Women’ Hall of Residence], founded in 1915. This institution developed tutelary practices for the education of women that went to Madrid to undertake University
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“Atlantic Gap or Network of Opportunities?” Spanish-American Cultural Relations, Women, and Diplomacy (1959-1975) Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 Moisés Rodríguez-Escobar, Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez
The geopolitical context of what would later come to be called the “global village” made governments pay more attention to their external image and the public opinion of third-world countries. The previous emphasis on the development of military or economic alliances (hard power) was complemented with alternative views, other ways of connecting with different global societies (soft power). Relations
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Images of Baetica. The ambivalent hispanic reception of Les Aventures de Télémaque Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 José María Iñurritegui Rodríguez
In a crucial passage of Les Aventures de Telemaque , Fenelon identified Baetica with a form of sociability highly reminiscent of the Golden Age. Destined to leave a deep and controversial mark in the political and moral debates throughout the 18th century, that evocative image of the most elevated status of a material civilization removed from and impervious to luxury, the spirit of conquest and the
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Digital sources: a case study of the analysis of the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain on the social network Twitter Culture & History Digital Journal (IF 0.195) Pub Date : 2019-01-17 Mariluz Congosto
The incorporation of digital sources from online social media into historical research brings great opportunities, although it is not without technological challenges. The huge amount of information that can be obtained from these platforms obliges us to resort to the use of quantitative methodologies in which algorithms have special relevance, especially regarding network analysis and data mining