Rich and Poor offers a full exploration of Galdós's treatment of questions relating to the creation and distribution of wealth in the modern money-centred society of Restoration Spain. To this day no other critical work on Galdós has analysed the financial and economic aspects o…
Winner of the 2017 Peter Bly Award of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas Rich and Poor follows Galdós's narrative of the ascent of the bourgeoisie in the speculative climate which resulted from the economic policies of the liberal State. The book also considers the way …
Tracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in Spain from the 19th century through the decades before the Civil War.
La 4e de couv. indique : "The international contributors to this volume explore the rich diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain through the 19th century and the decades up to the Civil War. Their line of enquiry is predicated on the belief that cultural…
The international contributors to this volume explore the rich diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain through the 19th century and the decades up to the Civil War. Their line of enquiry is predicated on the belief that cultural constructions of wrongdoi…
"The international contributors to this volume explore the rich diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain through the 19th century and the decades up to the Civil War. Their line of enquiry is predicated on the belief that cultural constructions of wrongdo…
La 4e de couv. indique : "This is the first full-length study in English of the work of José Enrique Rodó (Montevideo, 1871 - Palermo, Sicily, 1917), one of the great intellectual figures in Spanish and the most important essayist of modernismo, the movement that aimed to attain…
"This is the first full-length study in English of the work of José Enrique Rodó (Montevideo, 1871-Palermo, Sicily, 1917), one of the great intellectual figures in Spanish and the most important essayist of modernismo, the movement that aimed to attain aesthetic excellence by re…
The reception of Machiavelli in early modern Spain
Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises …
