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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a
word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of
steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday
merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an
extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic
transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global
history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of
globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a
single vessel. The Edwin Fox connected the lives and histories of
millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853,
the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop
transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was
sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung
constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic
ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of
people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers
brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported
from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand—with
dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples—and others. But
the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations,
economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era
of our modern world. Readers will never see globalization the same
way again.
Insightful and accessible, A Social History of Modern Spain is the
first comprehensive social history of modern Spain in any language.
Adrian Shubert analyzes the social development of Spain since 1800.
He explores the social conflicts at the root of the Spanish Civil
War and how that war and the subsequent changes from democracy to
Franco and back again have shaped the social relations of the
country. Paying equal attention to the rural and urban worlds and
respecting the great regional diversity within Spain, Shubert draws
a sophisticated picture of a country struggling with the problems
posed by political, economic, and social change. He begins with an
overview of the rural economy and the relationship of the people to
the land, then moves on to an analysis of the work and social lives
of the urban population. He then discusses the changing roles of
the clergy, the military, and the various local government,
community, and law enforcement officials. A Social History of
Modern Spain concludes with an analysis of the dramatic political,
economic, and social changes during the Franco regime and during
the subsequent return to democracy.
While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword
in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general
public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout
history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean
world of the early modern period, this volume moves to the empires
of the 18th and 19th centuries and the African Diaspora of the
Black Atlantic. It ends with questioning assumptions about
citizenship and underlying homogeneous "received" cultures through
the analysis of the changes in various literatures. This volume
clearly shows that the life-worlds of settled as well as migrant
populations in the past were characterized by cultural change and
exchange whether conflictual or peaceful. Societies reflected on
such change in their literatures as well as in their concepts of
citizenship.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary
public history's engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The
chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional
archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the
conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the
sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish
school curricula, and the place of war memory within human rights
initiatives. Adopting a strongly comparative focus, the authors
argue for greater public visibility and more nuanced discussion of
the Civil War's legacy, positing a virtual museum as one means to
foster dialogue.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of
cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global
study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such
as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a
transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring
issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building,
the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were
constructed and deployed in different national and transnational
contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors
and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent
woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and
highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters
illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in
nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of
gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical
edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the
strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this
intellectually innovative volume provides the first global
treatment of women warriors and their histories.
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.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary
public history’s engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The
chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional
archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the
conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the
sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish
school curricula, and the place of war memory within human rights
initiatives. Adopting a strongly comparative focus, the authors
argue for greater public visibility and more nuanced discussion of
the Civil War’s legacy, positing a virtual museum as one means to
foster dialogue.
In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the
Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars
examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion,
continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy. Split
into four main sections covering Military and Diplomatic Issues,
Society and Culture, Politics, and Debates, the volume offers a
number of unique features. It is unprecedented in its
comprehensiveness and includes chapters on topics that are rarely,
if ever, explored in the literature of the field: humanitarianism,
children and families, material conditions, the decimation of
elites, archives and sources, archaeological approaches, digital
approaches, public history, and cultural studies approaches.
Instead of discussing each of the two warring sides, Republicans
and Francoists, separately, as is so often the case, the book’s
thematic structure means that these opposing forces are examined
together, facilitating comparison and fresh understanding in
numerous areas of study. Contributors from the UK, the USA, Canada,
Spain and Denmark also analyse the major controversies and disputes
surrounding each topic as part of a detailed exploration of one of
the seminal events of the 20th century.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of
cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global
study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such
as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a
transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring
issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building,
the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were
constructed and deployed in different national and transnational
contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors
and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent
woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and
highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters
illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in
nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of
gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical
edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the
strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this
intellectually innovative volume provides the first global
treatment of women warriors and their histories.
Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the
waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero
(1793-1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by
Stendhal or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man
he was offered - and turned down - the throne of an industrializing
nation. During his illustrious life, he fought against Napoleon,
Simon Bolivar, and other Latin American independence leaders; won a
seven-year civil war; served as regent for the child queen Isabella
II; and spent years in exile in England. He governed as prime
minister and also received multiple noble titles, including that of
prince, which was normally reserved for members of the royal
family. By his sixties, Espartero represented an almost mythical
figure. Based on comprehensive archival research in Spain,
Argentina, and the United Kingdom, The Sword of Luchana explores
the public and private lives of this archetypal nineteenth-century
hero. Adrian Shubert gives voice to the mass of ordinary Spaniards
who revered Espartero as the embodiment of liberty and freedom, and
to Jacinta Martinez de Sicilia y Santa Cruz, his wife of more than
fifty years who played a key role in his public career. Including
unprecedented access to Espartero's personal papers, and set
against the background of wars and revolutions in Spain and its
American empire, The Sword of Luchana is a compelling account of
the history of a crucial period of war, revolution, and political
and social change.
Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17
scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada's
Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others
understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in
British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of
viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British
colonies, and Indigenous peoples. Exploring perspectives from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Latin America, New Zealand, and
the Vatican, among others, as well as considering the impact of
Confederation on the rights of Indigenous peoples during this
period, the contributors to this collection present how Canada's
Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world
in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation reveals how some viewed the
1867 changes to Canada as part of a reorganization of the British
Empire, while others contextualized it in the literature on
colonization more broadly, while still others framed the event as
part of a re-alignment or power shift among the Spanish, French and
British empires. While many people showed interest in the
Confederation debates, others, such as South Africa and the West
Indies, expressed little interest in the establishment of Canada
until it had profound effects on their corners of the global
political landscape.
Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight. While references to a form of bullfighting date back to the Poem of the Cid (1040), the modern bullfight did not emerge until the early 18th century. And when it did emerge, it was far from being an archaic remnant of the past--it was a precursor of the 20th-century mass leisure industry. Indeed, before today's multimillion-dollar athletes with wide-spread commercial appeal, there was Francisco Romero, born in 1700, whose unique form of bullfighting netted him unprecedented fame and wealth, and Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, hailed as Spain's greatest matador by the New York Times after a fatal goring in 1947. The bullfight was replete with promoters, agents, journalists, and, of course, hugely-paid bullfighters who were exploited to promote wine, cigarettes, and other products. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport, and explores the bullfighters' world: their social and geographic origins, careers, and social status. Here also are surprising revelations about the sport, such as the presence of women bullfighters--and the larger gender issues that this provoked. From the political use of bullfighting in royal and imperial pageants to the nationalistic "great patriotic bullfights" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is both a fascinating portrait of bullfighting and a vivid recreation of two centuries of Spanish history. Based on extensive research and engagingly written, Death and Money in the Afternoon vividly examines the evolution of Spanish culture and society through the prism of one of the West's first--and perhaps its most spectacular--spectator sports.
The history of Spain has been revitalized since the death of Franco
in 1975 and the restoration of democracy. Taking advantage of
unprecedented access to archives, historians have explores
long-standing issues more fully as well as bringing new questions
to bear, adopting new methodologies, and developing new
interpretations. The traditional view of Spain is somehow beyond
the orbit of other European countries is in retreat and it is part
of the purpose of the present volume to mark this reintegration of
Spanish history into the history of western Europe as a whole.
Leading Spanish scholars have combined with North American and
British historians to produce a major re-evaluation of modern
Spanish history, the first for some 20 years. Exploring the main
issues in social, economic, cultural, and political history within
a clear chronological framework, this volume reflects the
liveliness and diversity of the field and provides points of entry
to key issues for students and scholars alike.
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.
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