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Unearthed an impressive 4,200-Year-Old Fortification
UAB researchers have discovered an impressive 4,200-year-old fortification in Totana, Murcia, unique in continental Europe. Similar characteristics have not been observed in other constructions of the Bronze Age, with three-metre thick walls and a monumental entrance....
New tools to analyze the music of Gustav Mahler
The music of modernity (since the eighteenth century), was based on the tradition, mainly borrowed from poetry, of associating meanings with sounds: the music could be "understood". In contrast, the formalism of the twentieth century, through the radicalisation of...
Lawrence M. Friedman, Legal Historian
"The war against terrorism is a metaphor used to justify actions"
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Joseph Tainter, anthropologist and historian
"We'll never be able to say 'Aha! We are sustainable!'"
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Catalonia and Castile 1598-1652: “us and the others”
This PhD thesis analyses the literature and iconography of Catalonia and Castile between 1598 and 1652, a period of great tensions between the Catalan institutions and the Hispanic Monarchy. Its aim is to demonstrate that these artistic expressions...
The implantation of the Franco regime meant a deep restructuring in the Spanish society. In his doctoral thesis Javier Tébar submerged in the history of that time through a specific group: the Brotherhoods of Farmers and Cattle Rearers in Catalunya. In order to accomplish this research Tébar analysed the organization and the social...
