1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778386403321

Autore

McAlister Lyle N

Titolo

Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 / / Lyle N. McAlister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1984

ISBN

0-8166-8190-2

0-8166-1218-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (621 pages)

Collana

Europe and the world in the Age of Expansion

Disciplina

980/.01

Soggetti

Colonization

America Discovery and exploration Spanish

America Discovery and exploration Portuguese

Latin America History To 1830

Spain Colonies America History

Portugal Colonies America History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Cover title: Spain & Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part I. Old World Antecedents; Part II. The Establishment of Hispanic Dominion in America, 1492 to About 1570; Part III. Hispanic American Empires from About 1570 to About 1700; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A narrative and interpretive history of Spanish and Portuguese exploration, settlement, and colonization of the Americas.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815375803321

Autore

Maria N. Todorova

Titolo

Scaling the Balkans, : Essays in National, Transnational and Conceptual History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-38230-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (683 pages)

Collana

Balkan studies library ; ; Volume 24

Disciplina

949.6

Soggetti

Nationalism - Balkan Peninsula

Nationalism - Bulgaria

Balkan Peninsula Historiography

Balkan Peninsula Relations

Bulgaria Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Maria Todorova -- Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps / Maria Todorova -- Introduction / Maria Todorova -- Concepts / Maria Todorova -- Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy / Maria Todorova -- The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism / Maria Todorova -- Modernism / Maria Todorova -- Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East / Maria Todorova -- Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism / Maria Todorova -- Balkan / Maria Todorova -- Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View / Maria Todorova -- The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention / Maria Todorova -- The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention / Maria Todorova -- Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid / Maria Todorova -- Nationalism, Identity and Alterity / Maria Todorova -- Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category?* / Maria Todorova -- Is “the Other” a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region / Maria Todorova -- Isn’t Central Europe Dead? / Maria Todorova -- What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the



Balkans Have a Regional Identity? / Maria Todorova -- Structures, Processes and Events / Maria Todorova -- Demography and Social Structure / Maria Todorova -- European Population History: the Balkans / Maria Todorova -- Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern / Maria Todorova -- On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: The Balkans within the European Pattern / Maria Todorova -- Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women’s Issues, Feminist Issues / Maria Todorova -- Nation- and Society-Building / Maria Todorova -- The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism / Maria Todorova -- Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth Century / Maria Todorova -- Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims / Maria Todorova -- Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians / Maria Todorova -- Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria / Maria Todorova -- Historiography and Memory / Maria Todorova -- East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems / Maria Todorova -- The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography / Maria Todorova -- Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film / Maria Todorova -- The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence / Maria Todorova -- Socialism and Communism in Memory / Maria Todorova -- Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe / Maria Todorova -- 1917 in the Balkans: Divergent “Horizons of Expectation” / Maria Todorova -- Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski’s Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria / Maria Todorova -- Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire / Maria Todorova -- Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories / Maria Todorova.

Sommario/riassunto

Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.