Free Download DK Eyewitness Barcelona and Catalonia (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides), 2024 Edition by DK Eyewitness
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0241662893 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 238.14 MB
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona and Catalonia is your in-depth guide to the very best of the city and region.

Free Download Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, and Quebec By Marie McAndrew
2013 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0773540911 | PDF | 4 MB
Are fragile majorities capable of opening themselves to deep-rooted and new ethnic and cultural pluralism? What role does education play in this process? Based on ten years of comparative research, Fragile Majorities and Education is a nuanced study of ethnic dominance, linguistic integration of immigrants, and diversity in education. Ethnic relations are often depicted in an oversimplified framework where a clear dominant majority exercises power over various minorities. In many societies worldwide, however, this model does not hold true. In some countries, two or more groups possess relatively equal power to control the state and impose their definitions of the nation, as is the case with Flemish speakers and French speakers in Belgium, and with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. In other instances, such as in Quebec or Catalonia, clearly identifiable majorities are nonetheless minorities at a larger nation-state level, which creates a situation of ambiguous ethnic dominance. Marie McAndrew analyzes and clarifies these complex situations through the lens of education as a means for both maintaining and transforming ethnic boundaries and identities. Deeply insightful and meticulously researched, Fragile Majorities and Education is a groundbreaking contribution to the field of ethnic studies.

Federica Francesconi, "From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies)"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004376704 | PDF | pages: 377 | 4.6 mb
From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber's contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas-Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern-from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.

Richard Gillespie, "Barcelona, the Left and the Independence Movement in Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1857439627 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 274 KB
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en Comú, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen, addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the environment for those who live in the Catalan capital.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032111917 | 184 pages | True PDF | 2.29 MB
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0198801831 | 385 pages | True PDF EPUB | 7.94 MB
Located in north eastern Spain, Catalonia has long displayed the attributes of a nation: distinct language and culture, separate social and political institutions, and a strong collective identity. At the same time, it is one of Spain's centres of economic dynamism and innovation. As such, it is an especially striking instance of what has come to be known as 'minority' or 'internal' nations within a larger political order.

DK Eyewitness Barcelona and Catalonia (Travel Guide) | 45.9 MB
English | 224 Pages

Title: DK Eyewitness Barcelona and Catalonia
Author: DK Eyewitness
Year: 2022

English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780547416175 | 412 pages | True EPUB | 0.34 MB
A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

English | 2016 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B08ZSZZSNZ | Duration: 8:53 h | 244 MB
George Orwell / Narrated by Jeremy Northern
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to gather an experience worth writing as well as to fight Fascism, and wrote Homage to Catalonia within months of his return. His honesty and bitterness make for an unparalleled account of his journey from belief and enthusiasm to a reluctant loss of ideals.