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The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist
2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had undergone deep transformations. The second Industrial Revolution had created huge amounts of new wealth and power. This led to an alteration of the urban social fabric and to a repositioning of the country on the international scene.Since the 1870s, the American Renaissance had been a vehicle for the diffusion of new values and new concepts. As a broad neoclassical movement in the arts, it was committed to a rewriting of the country’s national past.At the time, Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) distinguished himself as one of the major artists of the movement, but also as one of its most influential critics and theorists. Cox developed theori…
The fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy at the moment when Prussianism fell
2019
The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted from Imperial Germany, the radicalised Russian Revolution, and Western parliamentary democracy. After having been a model for reformers demanding women’s suffrage, for instance, the country found itself in autumn 1918 going in the opposite direction to almost all other European countries. This article analyses the fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy then, contrasting it with longer-term trends supportive of democratisation. ‘Democracy’ had been the goal for mos…
Los maestros del colegio del arte mayor de la seda de Valencia en una fase de crecimiento manufacturero (1686-1755)
2014
El presente trabajo se basa en el estudio de los 2.077 nuevos maestros que ingresaron en el colegio del arte mayor de la seda de Valencia entre 1686 y 1755, y revela la complejidad de la evolución que experimentó la corporación. El repliegue en favor del propio colectivo artesanal que se produjo en el reclutamiento de sus miembros como respuesta a las dificultades del siglo XVII no tuvo un carácter definitivo, ya que el crecimiento manufacturero de finales de la centuria favoreció el ingreso de candidatos de una procedencia más diversa. Fue el incremento de la presión fiscal y la influencia de la política mercantilista que impulsó la monarquía tras la finalización de la guerra de Sucesión l…
Hollywood y la Guerra Civil española: análisis de sus tres únicas cintas de ficción coetáneas (1937-1938) = Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: anal…
2017
<p>El presente artículo propone un análisis comparativo de las tres únicas películas realizadas por Hollywood sobre la Guerra Civil española mientras esta se desarrollaba: <em>The Last Train From Madrid</em> (James Hogan, 1937), <em>Love Under Fire</em> (George Marshall, 1937) y <em>Blockade</em> (William Dieterle, 1938). A la postre, se demostrará que, en contra de lo afirmado por buena parte de la historiografía, las tres –y no únicamente <em>Blockade</em>– efectúan una denuncia de la intervención de las potencias del Eje en la Guerra Civil española.</p><p>The purpose of this article is to provide a comparative analysis of …
La primera aproximación de Hollywood a la Guerra Civil española: <em>The Last Train From Madrid (1937)</em> / First Approach of Hollywood…
2017
La Guerra Civil española fue un tema prohibido de forma tácita en el Hollywood regulado por la autocensura de la Oficina Hays y la PCA. Como consecuencia, las productoras cinematográficas norteamericanas sólo realizaron tres films sobre la contienda mientras se desarrolló (1936-1939). Este artículo analiza el contenido histórico y discurso ideológico de The Last Train From Madrid (James Hogan, 1937), la primera aproximación de Hollywood a la guerra de España. Se trata de un film menor, apenas estudiado, que sigue sin estar editado comercialmente. Sin embargo, posee gran relevancia en lo que atañe a la visión inaugural que se ofreció al público estadounidense sobre la beligerancia española e…
Civil Society, Corruption and Ethnic Relations
2015
In 2007 the Estonian government began to relocate a highly contentious Soviet era war memorial from the centre of Tallinn to a nearby military cemetery. The ‘Bronze Soldier’ was erected in 1947 to honour the memory of the fallen Soviet soldiers who had fought in the battles that liberated Tallinn from German forces during the Second World War. At that time it was known as the ‘Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn’. An eternal flame was added in 1964. Following independence, Estonian authorities rededicated it to all soldiers who had died during the war and dismantled the eternal flame in an attempt to depoliticise the memorial. For ethnic Estonians, however, it remained an acrimonious symb…
Tang sabrukums: faktori un attīstības aspekti Ķīnas impērijas krīzes laikā (754.g. - 906.g.)
2017
Šī bakalaura darba "Tan sabrukums: Faktori un attīstības aspekti Ķīnas imperīja krīze laikā (754.g. - 906.g.)" mērķis ir analizēt notikumu attīstību un to mijiedarbību, kas noveda pie krīzes, kura sākās pēc An Lušana vadītās sacelšanās, kā arī analizēt šo notikumu galvenās komponentes un dalībniekus. Bakalaura darbs sākas ar hronoloģisku notikumu attīstību. Pēc tam tiek aprakstīti faktori, kas ir sadalīti iekšējos un ārējos faktoros. Pie iekšējiem faktoriem pieder intelektuālais fons un centrālās personas, kuras ietekmēja dinastiju un tās virzību. Ārējie faktori sastāv no ārpolitikas un faktoriem ārpus dinastijas tiešās ietekmes sfēras. Nobeigumā hronoloģiskā veidā tiek apskatīts, kā faktor…
The Society 4.0, Internet, Tourism and the War on Terror
2019
The 9/11 marked the end of an epoch, or so it is claimed by many voices. Scholars and colleagues of all stripes agree that the attacks on the World Trade Center changed international relations and geopolitics as never before. In this context, this chapter interrogates the ramifications of terrorism, its connection with media society and with Society 4.0. As Slavoj Žižek puts it, 9/11 was not only a founding event, but it also woke the Occident from its slumber. In view of this, terrorism paradoxically not only uses the media and digital technologies to instil its message in society, but alerts us to the risks posed by virtuality. This chapter, henceforth, continues Žižek’s reflections unvei…
Rewriting Irish History (1916-1921) in Popular Culture: Blood Upon the Rose and At War withe the Empire by Gerry Hunt
2015
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