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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"History of Spanish"”.
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Invention and Contention: Place, Identity and Memory of the Spanish Past in the American Southwest, 1848-1940
… critics, and boosters presented a narrative of the arid Southwest as an exotic place blessed with a romantic history that could inspire, captivate and renew the many new white citizens flocking to rapidly growing cities. The history of Spanish colonialism in the area became a precious and …
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Aportaciones del estudio gramatical del libro del Apocalipsis de la Vetus Latina a la sintaxis romance
… and the pre-Alfonsine Bible (E6). The study of these versions makes it possible to examine, from a diachronic perspective, the linguistic evolution that spans the period between Vulgar Latín and the earliest manifestations of Castilian Romance prior to Alfonsine codification. This time trame …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
This thesis explores the representation of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in four epic poems spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, investigating how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an …
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Burying the War Hatchet: Spanish-Comanche Relations in Colonial Texas, 1743-1821
This dissertation provides a history of Spanish-Comanche relations during the era of Spanish Texas. The study is based on research in archival documents, some newly discovered. Chapter 1 presents an overview of events that brought both people to the land that Spaniards named Texas. The remaining …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
<p>The Spanish culture of storytelling suffered under the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The government-regulated cinema welcomed propaganda and melodrama, and denied the fantastic, the legendary, and the magical. These carefully manipulated histories, which served to …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a program of peace. By …
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Governing Irregular Migration: Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy
Since the first substantive changes to Spanish immigration laws in the 1980s, immigration to Spain and the policies designed to govern it have changed greatly. The pace of this continuous transformation has recently slowed down, offering a good opportunity to reflect on the ways in which irregular …
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From deference to face: the evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish
This study analyzes the evolution of the second person singular address pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The analysis is built around two time periods, the first from the 16th to the 18th centuries and the second period covers the 19th century and the first half …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
… on the verb. Both cycles are comprised of three stages. At stage (a) the pronoun is a full DP. At stage (b) the pronoun is reanalyzed as a D-head and at stage (c) it is reanalyzed as a T-head in the SAC or a v-head in the OAC. I extend the SAC to account for the grammaticalization of …
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Análisis de la relación entre rentabilidad para el accionista y gobierno corporativo en los consejos de administración de las compañías del Ibex-35 en el periodo 1998 a 2008
… las recomendaciones y reformaron en profundidad su régimen de gobierno” (Fernández-Armesto, 2002). Cinco años después de los trabajos de la comisión Olivencia, se creó la “Comisión para la transparencia y seguridad de los mercados financieros y sociedades cotizadas” (más conocida como …