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Spain: An Emerging Market Economy
The period 1958-1959 was a momentous one for Spain. This period witnessed the emergence of national decisions having a salutary impact upon the social, economic, and political life of the nation. And there are many indications that the changes occurring so far are merely the initial stages of a …
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Spain and Kazantzakis’ travel writing
… reading of Nikos Kazantzakis' writings on Spain as a whole, namely both the ones included in the book Ταξιδεύοντας-Ισπανία and those published in the newspapers Eleftheros Typos and I Kathimerini. The focus will not be on their literary value, but on the extent to which these texts function …
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The Catholic-Jews of Spain
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Social Security reform in Spain
The Spanish public pension system is currently based on the pay as you go (PA YOO) principle. This thesis examines the current structure of this public system and its financial viability in the face of expected demographic changes. First, demographic and macroeconomic models were created extending …
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Recovering Jewish Spain: Politics, Historiography and Institutionalization of the Jewish Past in Spain (1845-1935)
… and of the emergence of Sephardic Studies in Spain from 1845 to 1935. It explores the ways the Jewish past became central to efforts to construct and claim a Spanish patria, through its appropriation and integration into the nation's official national historical narrative, or historia patria. …
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The Censorship of Hemingway in Spain
Hemingway's works were subjected to censorship in Spain during the Franco regime, and some of them remain partially or completely censored. This dissertation offers translations of all the official Spanish censorship documents corresponding to Hemingway's works. These documents are housed in the …
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Schiller's Reception and Influence in Spain
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Women, pregnancy, and domestic violence in Spain
… in places outside of the U.S., such as in Spain. Several major gaps exist within the literature in this area. Currently, it seems that the prevalence rates of IPV during pregnancy in women from Spain are unknown. In addition, little work has been done to address whether pregnancy and other …
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Stories: Spain, Lovers and Crazy Old Ladies
Stories: Spain, Lovers and Crazy Old Ladies is a collection of short stories about relationships, traumas, memories and change.
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The regional trade-union : lessons from Spain
The region has emerged in the last two decades as a new field of trade-union activity. There is increasing interaction across Europe between unions, employer associations, and state actors at the subnational territorial level. These practices take different forms and cover a wide range of issues, …
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THE RETURN OF THE RADICAL RIGHT IN SPAIN
… Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Matteo Salvini in Italy—Spain was, until recently, one of the few European countries considered to be invulnerable to this far-right trend. However, after nearly four decades of exceptionalism, the Spanish exclusion ended abruptly in 2018 with the ascendance of Vox, …
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Cost of living in Spain: a spatial perspective
Desde mediados del siglo pasado los científicos especializados en la Ciencia Regional han estado estudiando el efecto de las aglomeraciones, generando una rica literatura, tanto teórica como empírica, que ha evidenciado los efectos que tienen sobre toda actividad económica las diferencias …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
This thesis investigates the performance of dreams and dreaming in a few early modern English and Spanish plays, namely William Shakespeare’s 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 'Life Is a Dream' and 'Sometimes Dreams Come True' and Aphra Behn’s …
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John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype
… present John Singer Sargent's unique vision of Spain as well as to analyze this part of his work through the use of methodologies such as Orientalism and Spanish cultural studies, an approach that has not been undertaken to date.</p> <p>The thesis intends to demonstrate that Sargent's early …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… narrates the history of city encomia in Spain from the genre's roots in the eighth-century <em>De laude Spanie</em> of Isidore through the humanist <em>laudes urbium</em> of ca. 1455 to 1506. Preliminary context for the Spanish tradition is provided in a survey of classical and medieval …
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… Peru, while Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in New Spain, and friar Gabriel Téllez visited the island of La Española between 1616 and 1618, before coming back to the Peninsula. Through this study, the atlantic space is conceived as a means of communication that connects everything. Through it, the …
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Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
… development of artistic identity in Golden Age Spain by elucidating the cultural, social, and economic contexts which framed notions of the artist during this period. More particularly, I focus on the notion of artistic nobility as it relates to contemporary evolving aristocratic ideals. …
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Supply chain network for hydrogen transportation in Spain
… and distributed production. A case study in Spain is presented to illustrate the supply chain. Different models are proposed to estimate electricity generation capacity, hydrogen production scheme, transportation topology, distribution methods and future demands. Six different scenarios, …
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LANDSLIDE INVESTIGATION IN THE RÍO AGUAS CATCHMENT, SOUTHEAST SPAIN
… This is a remote and rural part of southeastern Spain, which has an arid to semi-arid climate and is periodically affected by both earthquake and flash-flood activity. Through a combination of aerial photographic interpretation (API) and field verification and mapping, over 300 landslides have …
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