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The Development of Finland’s Higher Education System After the Second World War – Towards a Welfare State
2019
Finland lost the war against the Soviet Union but won the peace after the Second World War. The defeat forced Finnish society to change. Higher education played a crucial role in these processes, resulting in a Nordic Welfare State in the 1980s. The author gives an overview of the major political changes in Finland between the 1940s and the 2010s.
Refugee Crisis in the European Union
2021
This chapter outlines the myriad push and pull factors that led to the refugee crisis, describes the scale of the migration, and discusses how the European Union (EU) nations and the EU as a whole responded to the crisis. Four push factors are described: the change in migration policy in Macedonia that opened up the Balkan route to the EU, the war in Syria, political and economic instability in sub-Saharan Africa, and climate change. The primary pull factors are economic opportunities and political and religious freedoms. The discussion of the scale of the migration and how each nation responded provides in-depth discussion of how individual EU nations responded to the refugee crisis.
A Fascism That Came to Stay? On Spanish Falange’s Political Culture
2019
Sanz offers a synthetic analysis on the development of the fascist political culture in Spain, as part of the renewed recent Spanish historiography and the integration of the history of that country in its European context. To that end, he explores its cultural roots in the renewed nationalism developed since the turn of the century and its ideological and political construction in the assault on the Second Republic’s democracy. Likewise, it shows the development of the political culture of Falange, fully fascist based on an ultranationalistic, regenerationist, “revolutionary” and “traditional” synthesis, in dialectic with the cultures of the reactionary nationalism and the Catholic right. …
Making sides and taking sides: an analysis of salient images and category constructions for pro- and anti-Gulf War respondents
1998
This paper reports supportive evidence for a modified self-categorisation model of mass social influence, whereby category definitions are determined rhetorically and the character of collective action is shaped through category arguments. The study was conducted shortly after the Gulf War and was concerned with the respective constructions of pro- and anti-war respondents. Respondents were first asked to recall the images of the war which had most impact on them. They were then shown 29 images of the war and asked to rate the impact of each one as well as explain why they had given such impact ratings. Finally, they were asked to select the five images which had most impact on them. The re…
Mathematical Publishing in the Third Reich: Springer-Verlag and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
2000
Stiss. He was known to take interest in DMV affairs and they believed his views coincided with those current at the DMV board, in other words, with their own. Stiss had been a pupil of Ludwig Bieberbach (1886-1982), who in the Third Reich propagated an anti-Semitic, racial theory of Deutsche Mathematik and led a group of National Socialist mathematicians strongly opposed to the DMV. The DMV board hoped that Stiss might be able to reconcile his former teacher with the DMV, or at least safeguard it and its politics against the threat of political attack from Bieberbach's faction. In addition, Stiss had recently become a member o f the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei…
Donna e Guerra Civile in Y, Revista para las mujeres nacional sindicalistas (1938-1945)
2020
The Francoist Regime, in order to legitimize and maintain power until the death of its dictator, aimed to impose a system of values and norms by carrying out activities of control and self-control. With this objective, it intended to modify the mental schemas and the dynamic components of individual identity. In this project, the press played a fundamental role, given its capacity to influence the beliefs and actions of all social agents. In this contest, feminine identity was of special importance and the Women's Section intended to re-construct it in the pages of Y Revista para las mujeres nacional sindicalistas (1938-1945), influencing the ideas and behaviour of Spanish women during the …
Limits in medical care and social relief during the Spanish Civil War in a rear-guard city: the inclusa of the provincial hospital of Valencia.
2016
Due to its geostrategic condition during the Spanish Civil War, Valencia became one of the Republican cities welcoming more refugees, including many children. In this scenario of demographic and health crisis, the town had to restructure the assistance network in order to accommodate thousands of displaced children, who often had their relatives in faraway places. The paper focuses in the progressive rehabilitation undertaken by the Inclusa of Valencia, which was the provincial foundling hospital. This included deep changes both in its operation and in the admission criteria, particularly following the transfer of the Inclusa of Madrid to Valencia. The resulting overcrowding encouraged the …
Diputación y Germanía: Nueva historia de una aportación financiera
2019
It's widely known, since long time ago, that the reign of Charles I began in the old kingdom of Valencia with the «Germanías»; a social conflict that finished by denerating into a civil war. In the following pages, we try to analyse the problems concerned with the finances of the army organized by the viceroy Diego Hurtado de Mendoza from the perspective of one of the institutions involved in the economic management of this army: the «Diputado del General».
El parlamento de Juan II ante las cortes generales de Monzón (1469). Una pequeña crónica autobiográfica en lengua castellanoaragonesa
2016
Resumen: Edicion critica y estudio historico, formal y linguistico del discurso con el que Juan II de Aragon abrio, el 13 de noviembre de 1469, las cortes generales de Monzon. En plena guerra civil catalana, los rebeldes habian ofrecido la corona a Renato de Anjou, y la llegada desde Francia de su hijo, el duque de Lorena, con un poderoso ejercito obligaba a pedir subsidios para afrontar la grave situacion. En este parlamento, una de las escasas muestras de aragones tardio conservadas, el monarca hizo un relato autobiografico de su reinado de innegable sesgo maniqueo. Palabras clave: Juan II de Aragon, oratoria parlamentaria, Corona de Aragon, cortes generales, siglo XV, guerra civil catala…
The financial autonomy of the municipalities and the Valencian Parliament
2009
In the first half of the fourteenth century and on countless occasions, the Crown granted the leaders of the City of Valencia authorization to collect indirect taxes as a means of collecting the subsidies allocated to its military needs. The ratification of fiscal autonomy can be related to the Crown's interest in gaining control of municipal resources as a way of demanding donations in order to accomplish its policies. The main reason for the royal privilege to raise taxes in favour of the cities was the extensive expenses caused by the conquest of Corsica and Sardinia during the reign of James II. The Kingdom and the city of Valencia came to the aid of the monarch because they were intere…