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  • Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936

    by Maitane Ostolaza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings.The book is divided ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Basque Sports: Histories, Identities, Politics, and Landscapes

    by Santiago de Pablo, André Gounot, John Bieter, Olatz González-Abrisketa, Uxue Fernandez-Lasa, Olaia Eizagirre-Sagastibeltza, Jim O’Brien, Álvaro Ariza García, Imanol Galdos Irazabal, Dennis Sorondo Salazar, Ekain Rojo-Labaien, Jeremy MacClancy, Maitane Ostolaza, Alan Bairner ...
    Series Book 3 - Basque Topics
    Basque Sports: Histories, Identities, Politics and Landscapes is the first book to offer a systematic review of Basque sport and its historical, political, anthropological, and sociological significance. The Basques have nurtured traditional sports like the ball game pelota, or baserri (farmstead)-inspired herriko kirolak (rural sports) for centuries. Basque soccer clubs were founding members of ... Read more

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  • The Basque Country: A Cultural History

    by Paddy Woodworth ...
    Series Book 6 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest people and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic post-modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for the twenty-first-century city of cultural services and information technologies.Hugging the elbow of the Bay ... Read more

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  • On the Plaza

    The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    by Setha M. Low ...
    Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Brazil

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Richard J. Williams ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking Modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and in this volume, Richard Williams unearths the surprisingly rich and influential architectural heritage of Brazil.Spanning the period from the 1930s to the present, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    by Catherine Davies ...
    What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antoni Gaudí and artworks

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

    Edited by John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural traits. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts explore the unity and diversity of the ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    by Claudia Calirman ...
    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Read more

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  • Culture Wars in Brazil

    The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945

    by Daryle Williams ...
    In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state’s power to regulate and consecrate the ... Read more

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  • Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950

    Edited by Arturo Almandoz ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new per ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD