Academic Books Of The Month

por | May 5, 2016 | |

  • The Hungry City
    The Hungry City draws together multiple lives and narrative strands to focus on a single point in time, what one Catalan chronicler referred to as "the first bad year," providing a dynamic new perspective on the history of Barcelona and the medieval Mediterranean.
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  • Sheltering Strangers
    This book documents the intimate lives of Ukrainians as they fled their homeland in search of a safe and stable place to stay. The critical memoirs follow the lives of 16 Ukrainian families in a small Spanish town near Madrid and the local families that volunteered to host them during a time of limited state support and an absence of a clear EU plan for the refugees.
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  • Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire
    Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s Portugal.
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  • Conversos, Power and the Intermediate Groups in Golden Age Spain
    Recent studies reveal significant social mobility in 16th-17th century Spain, challenging previous beliefs. This book explores the rise of a powerful intermediate class, the mesocracy, including Jewish converts, who advanced through long-term family strategies and professional roles, contributing to Spain's economic power.
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  • Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1
    Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods.
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  • Legitimating Austerity
    This book reexamines the politics of austerity during the euro crisis, challenging conventional narratives of austerity as either an inevitable economic remedy or an external imposition. Focusing on Greece, Portugal, and Spain, it demonstrates that austerity was a political project shaped and contested across domestic, international, and transnational levels.
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  • Cities Beyond Crisis
    Arguing that the affects and effects of the crisis are best understood when embedded within local environments, Cities Beyond Crisis focuses on how textual, visual, and spatial interventions both drove and contested change in two racially diverse, historically marginalized neighborhoods in the capital cities of Spain and Portugal - Madrid’s Lavapiés and Lisbon’s Mouraria.
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  • Posttraumatic Culture in Spanish and Latin American Theater
    Drawing on trauma studies, clinical psychology, and neuroscience, Masking the Past examines the commonalities in posttraumatic theater to create a coherent theoretical foundation by which we can explore other cultural products that arise in response to traumatic events.
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