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Book Review: Britain and Ireland: The Re-invention of the European Radical Right: Populism, Regionalism and the Italian Lega Nord
2013
Historic constructions of the early multinational: on power, politics and culture in Pan Am narratives
2018
This paper examines how Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) - an early incarnation of a multinational enterprise (MNE) - developed its image as an international company. In particular, we examine how the company developed and managed potentially conflicting narratives, including the modernising US company and the airline of 'the Americas' (specifically South America); the carrier of US national interests and the politically neutral actor serving to unify cultures; the purveyor of exotic experiences and the pioneer of modernism. Through a focus on organisational narratives, we reveal the powerful influence of such story telling (through design and serendipity) on images of the peoples and co…
Oblicza autokracji w czeskich dystopiach literackich na wybranych przykładach
2019
FACES OF AUTOCRACY IN CZECH LITERARY DYSTOPIASThe paper deals with the phenomenon of dystopia in Czech literature before 1989. The main aim of the article is to present some similiar views on totalitarian power and its influence on the individual in Czech novels and short stories: Datum narození nula by Ludmila Freiová, Poselství pro Agla Mathona by Ondřej Neff, Utopie, nejlepší verze by Ivan Kmínek and Maso by Martin Harníček. The purpose of the paper was also to show how in the authors’ visions of autocratic states, administration is taking control over ordinary people and what kind of tools it uses to manipulate them: terror, self-censorship or various addictions.
Irrigation and Political Power in the Medieval Kingdom of Valencia
2018
The medieval Kingdom of Valencia (Spain) was a European feudal society born in the thirteenth century out of the military conquest of the east of al-Andalus by the Crown of Aragon. This work focuses on the social organization of irrigation institutions in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, which replaced the water management systems in use during the Andalusi period. The study analyzes the three types of water-governance systems in operation: irrigation systems managed by royal officials, irrigation systems managed by municipalities, and irrigation systems managed by corporations of autonomous farmers. The chapter also examines the different royal and municipal officials t…
The Global Social Policy Reader - Edited by Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden
2010
Карточная система: материалы
1916
Содержание: Карточная система ; Общая характеристика карточной системы ; Распредѣлительная система и "перемѣнныя" карточки ; "Ограничительная" система ("устойчивыя карточки") ; ПРИЛОЖЕНІЯ: 1. Сводка свѣдѣній ; 2. Матеріалы по введенію карточной системы : 1. Москва. 2. Псковская губернія. 3. Калуга. 4. г. Самара. 5. г. Рига : [Проектъ распредѣленія между хозяйствами по карточной системѣ припасовъ первой необхходимости, закупленныхъ Рижскимъ Городскимъ Управленіемъ. Обязятельное постановленіе Лифляндскаго губернатора о распредѣленіи по карточной системѣ жителямъ гор. Риги продуктовъ первой необходимости, купленныхъ рижскою городскою управою. Введеніе карточной системы. Организаціонный Отдѣлъ …
Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
2012
Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe By David Art Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, 288 pp., £60.00, ISBN 9780521896245 (hbk) Over the la...
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».
On Utopias, Neo-Catholics and Politics
2021
El presente trabajo explora la pertinencia, o no, del uso de la categoría analítica de utopía en relación con el proyecto político de los neocatólicos en la España de Isabel II. Las dificultades del empleo de este concepto, así como su rechazo por parte de los protagonistas de la época, ofrecen una oportunidad para delimitar el sentido político y cultural del catolicismo intransigente en la sociedad postrevolucionaria. Sus propuestas enlazaron con demandas de grupos diversos temerosos ante los riesgos desestabilizadores del soberanismo partidario del decisionismo. This paper explores the approprietness of utopia used as an analytical category in relation to the political project of Neo-Cath…
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…