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The Valley of the Fallen

Author : Donald Katz
Publisher : AtRandom
ISBN 13 : 0679647228
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Valley of the Fallen written by Donald Katz and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers can match journalist Donald Katz’s ability to make an exotic locale familiar or transform an ordinary place into something peculiar if not completely weird. The Valley of the Fallen and Other Places gathers a pastiche of stories from around the world, each of which subtly underlines the relationship between geography and politics. Locations, counties, regions of the world emerge as characters in Katz’s panoramic cast–as fully drawn as the unusual people that occupy them–so that one realizes of each particular account, that this could only happen in a place like this. The setting for each of these pieces–whether home or abroad–provides a resonant backdrop for Katz’s startling perceptions and cultural acumen. He paints a portrait of Spain in which people are dying of political repression and vividly depicts Italy in the throes of a postwar capitalist hangover. Katz describes Arkansas, its history of racial strife notwithstanding, as an “American cultural ark” where respect for old-fashioned gumption and the tolerance for human eccentricity have fostered a renaissance of spirit. He captures the poignant ruin of political ideals gone amuck in the image of columns of Ethiopian children being herded through the night at gunpoint, undergoing political re-education. Katz’s observations of the Sinai, where “beliefs, convictions, even hunches become howling zeal,” contrast with Santa Fe’s “philosophical cogitating and quality-of-life improvement projects” in a New Age mecca that breeds tamer but equally fervent faiths. The cumulative effect of reading this eclectic collection is one of wonder about the mysterious and dazzling world in which we live, and the way our lives are shaped by our place in it.

The Valley of the Fallen

Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021796X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Valley of the Fallen written by Carlos Rojas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain’s War of Independence. Goya obliges the king’s request for a portrait, but his depiction not only fails to flatter but reflects a terrible darkness and grotesqueness. More than a century later, transcending conventional time, Goya observes Franco’s body lying in state and experiences again a dark and monstrous despair."--

Franco's Crypt

Author : Jeremy Treglown
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429943424
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Franco's Crypt written by Jeremy Treglown and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain True, false, or both? Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy. Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s. As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promote the visual arts, irrespective of the artists' political views. Censorship can benefit literature. Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe-wrongly-that under Franco's fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. In his groundbreaking new book, Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was and continues to be a national pact to forget the evils for which Franco's side (and, according to this version, his side alone) was responsible. The myth that truthfulness was impossible inside Franco's Spain may explain why foreign narratives (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia) have seemed more credible than Spanish ones. Yet La Guerra de España was, as its Spanish name asserts, Spain's own war, and in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to "reclaim" its modern history of fascism. How it is doing so, and the role played in the process by notions of historical memory, are among the subjects of this wide-ranging and challenging book. Franco's Crypt reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. Treglown looks at what's actually there-monuments, paintings, public works, novels, movies, video games-and considers, in a captivating narrative, the totality of what it shows. The result is a much-needed reexamination of a history we only thought we knew.

Ghosts of Spain

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716741
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Spain written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent odyssey through Spain's dark history journeys into the heart of the Spanish Civil War to examine the causes and consequences of a painful recent past, as well as its repercussions in terms of the discovery of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads and the lives of modern-day Spaniards. Reprint.

Franco

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299302105
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Franco written by Stanley G. Payne and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English, presenting an objective and deeply researched account of the Spanish dictator's personal, professional, and political life.

Quest for the Fallen Star

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0312870701
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Quest for the Fallen Star written by Piers Anthony and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the twin suns Ellistar and Deneob, the Realm of Infinitera is menaced by the Dark One and his minions, the Illcreatures. And in these strange times has come a thing never seen before: a star which has tumbled from the sky, holding a power of evil even more dangerous than the Dark One himself. Now, to save the Realm, the High Bishop charges a lonely group of travelers with a crucial task: carrying the mightiest weapon every known, the Thunderwood Staff, to safety in the Holy city of Norivika. Running before the storm, the doughty band must traverse the world, and learn the true nature of the Fallen Star, in order to stave off the Dark... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Valley

Author : John Renehan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698186273
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Valley written by John Renehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.

The Fallen

Author : Sean M. Bazaar
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475958973
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Fallen written by Sean M. Bazaar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armageddon has come. Angels and demons have erupted onto Earths surface, battling for domination. Alisha Grace witnesses this battle, and she, like so many others, expects the angels to win. It soon becomes apparent, however, that the demon forces have powers beyond belief as Gabriels angelic forces lose Armageddon. Rai is a fallen angel, leading the fight with his demon allies. Commander Krillion and Captain Zara are leaders in the Seraphim force, and although their armies have lost to Lucifers demonic legions, they will not give up. But there is much more to this endgame battle than meets the eye. Even demons have history, and Rai will soon discover on which side he truly belongs. In the meantime, Israfil, the angel of judgement day, receives a new vision. As hell covers the Earth in its dark genesis, Israfil senses the building of a new team that will fight the evil ones. A demon, a girl from Earth, warriors of the Seraphim and a being brought forth from Purgatory will fight on the same sideand only time will tell if they will be victorious, or if hope will be lost and darkness will rule the world for all eternity.

The Fallen Fortress

Author : R.A. Salvatore
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 0786954353
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book The Fallen Fortress written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipped with new powers and confidence, Cadderly wages battle against Castle Trinity in this penultimate installment of the Cleric Quintet Warrior-priest Cadderly Bonaduce is tired of living in fear of his enemies. Joined by his friends Danica, Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder, Shayleigh the elf, and Vander the firbolg, he takes matters into his own hands to bring the battle to Castle Trinity, the headquarters of a nefarious sect that worships the goddess of disease. Against the wishes of the chief priests, the friends set forth to win fight after fight against foes old and new, drawing on Cadderly’s newfound strength and power. As the most epic battle of all draws near, the motley group of warriors will each need to unleash their powers, especially as the ultimate enemy may be more familiar and more deadly than they anticipate . . .

Monsignor Quixote

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409021009
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Monsignor Quixote written by Graham Greene and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.

A Late Encounter

Author : Donald Paterson
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525512773
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book A Late Encounter written by Donald Paterson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has in its kinship history an elderly hanger-on. He was the one who came for Thanksgiving dinner, built the fire at Hallowe'en, shared stories of derring-do with the children and who helped with the wood-pile, roto-tilling and snow removal. As the years go by, the tasks become harder to manage, stories are repeated, there are some little accidents, lapses are more frequent. "Mom, Dad, something's wrong with 'Uncle' John," say the children, now in young adult life. The relationship shifts from one of neighbourly engagement to one of deeper caring. The interruptions of the past, once so welcome, are now the central work of the family. This story is about that transition.

Patriarchy’s Remains

Author : Erin K. Hogan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228021472
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy’s Remains written by Erin K. Hogan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is rotten in the state of Spain. The uninterred corpse of a patriarchal figure populates the visual landscapes of Iberian cinemas. He is chilled, drugged, perfumed, ventilated, presumed dead, speared in the cranium, and worse. Analyzing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the 1950s to the present day, Patriarchy’s Remains argues that the cinematic trope of the patriarchal death symbolizes the lingering remains of the Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939–75). These films, created as satirical responses to persisting economic, social, and political issues, demonstrate that Spain’s transition to democracy following the Francoist period is an incomplete and ongoing process. Within the theme of patriarchal decay, the significance of the figure differs across cinematic representations, from his indispensability to his obstructionism and exploitation. Erin Hogan traces the prevalence of patriarchal death by analyzing its relationship with the surrounding characters who must depend on the deceased. Hogan demonstrates how the patriarch’s persistence in film both reveals and challenges an array of discriminations and inequalities in the cinematic grotesque tradition, in Iberian cinemas more broadly, and in Iberian society as a whole. Despite Spain’s ongoing transition towards democratic pluralism, Patriarchy’s Remains serves as a reminder that the remnants of an entrenched although not interred patriarchal culture continue to haunt Iberian society.

The History of Modern Spain

Author : Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147259200X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The History of Modern Spain written by Adrian Shubert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries, the book innovatively combines a strong and clear political narrative with chapters exploring a wide range of thematic topics, such as gender, family and sexuality, nations and nationalism, empire, environment, religion, migrations and Spain in world history. The volume includes a series of biographical sketches of influential Spaniards from intellectual, cultural, economic and political spheres which provides an interesting, alternative way into understanding the last 220 years of Spanish history. The History of Modern Spain also has a glossary, a chronology and a further reading list. This is essential reading for all students of the modern history of Spain.

Decades of Reconstruction

Author : Ute Planert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107165741
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Decades of Reconstruction written by Ute Planert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars review decades of postwar reconstruction in international comparison from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, demonstrating how foreign domestic policy cannot be separated.

Europe and Its Boundaries

Author : Andrew Davison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739135716
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Europe and Its Boundaries written by Andrew Davison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In crating a forum for a deeply hermeneutical consideration of the project of provincializing Europe, this book articulates an alternative grammar of global political thought. It shows that forms of global political thought are capable of residing simultaneously within as well as significantly beyond the boundaries of European thought.

Valle de Los Caídos

Author : Junta Local de Información, Turismo y Educación Popular (El Escorial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Valle de Los Caídos written by Junta Local de Información, Turismo y Educación Popular (El Escorial and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and the Art of Commemoration

Author : Katherine Hite
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136583653
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Art of Commemoration written by Katherine Hite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states and societies symbolically to right wrongs, to recognize loss, to assert distinct historical narratives that are not dominant. This book explores relationships among art, representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts in Spain and Latin America. Drawing from curators, art historians, psychologists, political theorists, holocaust studies scholars, as well as the voices of artists, activists, and families of murdered and disappeared loved ones, Politics and the Art of Commemoration uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic praxis. Tracing deep histories of political struggle and suggesting that today’s commemorative practices are innovating powerful forms of collective political action, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, Latin American studies and memory studies.