1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455067803321

Autore

Thomas Hugh <1931-2017>

Titolo

Eduardo Barreiros and the recovery of Spain [[electronic resource] /] / Hugh Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35238-5

9786612352386

0-300-14246-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 391 p. [29] p. of plates) ) : ill., maps, plans

Disciplina

338.7/629222092

B

Soggetti

Motor vehicle industry - Spain - History - 20th century

Industrialists - Spain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-372) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The peasants do the real work -- The Rodríguezes of Gundiás -- The Barreiroses of Sabadelle -- "βGuagua, guagua!" -- Give to him who asks -- A clear, bright town -- The Spanish catastrophe -- People lived for politics -- There came forth from the soil armed men -- Red beret -- This cruel struggle -- Establishing a national syndicalist system -- The rich girl of the village -- Marching alone -- Transform your car to diesel -- Good-bye rivers, good-bye fountains, good-bye little streams -- A good source of income -- "Madrid! Madrid!" -- The vehicle of progress -- Onward, Barreiros! -- My boyfriend works in Barreiros -- The factory of happiness -- We worked with optimism -- Your call persuaded me -- We beseech you to refuse a licence -- Boys always run after motor cars -- A university of work -- The new gods from the west -- Disagreement with the Americans -- Very sad for us -- A combination of adversities -- We never thought that we would reach this moment -- A place in La Mancha -- Life has dealt me a bad hand -- Don Eduardo in the land of comrades -- Villaverde revisited -- I am a Barreiros product.



Sommario/riassunto

A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain's most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a Spanish entrepreneur in English, Hugh Thomas recounts Barreiros's origins as an auto mechanic, his success in the motor industry, his tragic alliance with the Chrysler Corporation, and his little-known role as a motor industry founder in 1980's Cuba. Drawing on an unrivaled knowledge of Spanish history, Lord Thomas also brings to light Barreiros's critical role in the modernization of the Spanish economy in the post-Civil War years. The book offers a detailed portrait of Don Eduardo's personality, character, and numerous entrepreneurial endeavors, as well as a full account of the difficulties the Franco-era government threw in the path of his capitalist activities. The relationship between Barreiros and the Chrysler Corporation is also described, along with the failed Dodge Dart project that ultimately cost Barreiros his business. Finally, the book recounts Don Eduardo's late-in-life efforts to help establish a motor industry in Castro's Cuba-a paradoxical conclusion for a great capitalist.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797555803321

Autore

Byrd Richard Evelyn

Titolo

Discovery : the story of the second Byrd Antarctic expedition / / Richard Evelyn Byrd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©1935

ISBN

1-4422-4167-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (477 p.)

Collana

Admiral Byrd Classics

Disciplina

919.8904

Soggetti

TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania

Antarctica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"Admiral byrd's classics"--Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Antarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. This second Antarctic journey proved as daring, eventful, and inspiring as any Byrd ever embarked upon.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484314003321

Autore

Dobson Tom

Titolo

Naming the Unnamable : Researching Identities through Creative Writing / / by Tom Dobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2014

ISBN

9789462096417

9462096414

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Bold Visions in Educational Research

Disciplina

370

808

Soggetti

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- List of Characters -- A Journey -- The Long Road Home -- You’s Analysis -- PhD Student’s Analysis -- The End of Something -- List of References -- List of Academic References -- List of Literary References.

Sommario/riassunto

Reflecting upon his own prior experiences as Writer, PhD Student embarks on an ethnographic research project which seeks to explain the relationship between Boys’ creative writing and identity. A view of identity as performance is adopted, a main cast of year 6 Boys is assembled, and the stage of the year 6 primary classroom and the secondary school is set. Undertaking participant observation, PhD Student sends his reflections as emails to PhD Supervisor but as their dialogue takes hold, questions relating to the problematic nature of research and representation proliferate. Which identity is PhD Student performing in the classroom: himself, Mr Dobson, Writer or Tom? Is self-reflexivity enough? To what extent can the Boys’ identities ever be known? Rather than silencing these problems, PhD Student looks for a form of writing which lays bare the messiness of research. He rejects the linearity of the traditional form and writes his thesis as a self-conscious fiction: a dialogue on a train between himself, a post/structuralist academic, and You, a humanist non-academic. As PhD Student’s data is analysed, critiqued and deconstructed from both



essentialist and interpretivist perspectives, the impossibility of objective representation is explored. Within its own frame of reference, PhD Student’s analysis of the Boys’ writing offers a theoretical framework for thinking about creative writing in terms of identity and agency. However, the thesis-script itself is primarily a methodological critique: one that shows that no matter what is written on pages, between the words, between the letters, there will always be the Unnamable.