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Biographien in Bewegung
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99Andreas Oskar Kempf behandelt transnationale Migrationsverläufe aus dem ländlichen Raum von Ost- nach Westeuropa mit dem Fokus auf Rumänien und Italien. Er rekonstruiert, in welche biographischen Zusammenhänge die transnationalen Migrationsprozesse eingebettet sind, und arbeitet die handlungsorientierenden Wechselwirkungen zwischen... more...
Portugal and Brazil in Transition
University of Minnesota Press 1968; US$ 72.00Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography,... more...
Culture and Customs of Portugal
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 50.00Portugal is evolving quickly as an integrated part of modern Europe. What was until the mid-1970s an old-world society, where 80 percent of the economy was controlled by an oligarchy of eight elite families, is now increasingly a model of an advanced European state. Portugal now ranks highly among the countries of the world in level of globalization... more...
Diasporic Generations
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 70.00Mette Louise Bergs work is a productive, insightful and timely intervention in the study of the Cuban diaspora and other contemporary transnational movements . . . an original and substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on migration. Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico. ...well-written and intelligent, and deals with the Cuban... more...
Iberian Modalities
Liverpool University Press 2012; US$ 72.50Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. This timely volume brings together contributions from... more...
Iberian Worlds
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the cutting-edge of world relations, managing far-flung empires,... more...
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries... more...
Blood and Faith
New Press, The 2009; US$ 19.95In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon... more...
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