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This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest in the world, fills the final gap in the ranks of the major maritime powers. This book is the first comprehensive listing of these ships in English and covers the development of all the naval vessels owned or deployed by Spain during the period of the Bourbon monarchy from 1700 to 1860 (including the period of French control during the Napoleonic Wars), but it also sets the scene for that period by summarizing the origins of Spanish naval development under the preceding Habsburg regime. As with previous volumes in the series, the main chapters list all the naval vessels from 1700 onwards (including those 16th century ships which survived into the new regime in 1700) by type, with the first chapters listing the ships of the line (navíos in Spanish terminology) and frigates in descending order of firepower, and subsequent chapters covering minor and ancillary vessels. Where available, a brief service history of each individual ship is given. A comprehensive introductory section includes a group of background essays designed to provide the reader with a deep understanding of how Spanish naval forces operated, and the context within which they were organized. Certain to become the standard English-language reference work, its publication is of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navies of the sailing era.

The book presents and analyzes some of the most important issues related to the body seen as a rich and complex anthropological and semiotic object, capable of playing a decisive role in the meaning making processes of cultural and social life. The analysis presented in this book opens a whole set of new venues for the study of body performances and representations, and shows how the embodiment of social and cultural life shape our world. In all of its relationships and in itself, our body works in a sort of corposphere, which is, in turn, part of the semiosphere, defined by Lotman as a continuum occupied by different types of semiotic formations. It is from/in/by the body that all semiosis begins and ends; it is in its presence and absence, in its being and in its presentation amidst the lived situational life where we might discover and shape the senses of the world. Many different academic fields will find in this book deep insights about how the body is at the center of cultural and social processes.

Carla i Juan passaran una setmana de vacances a València, una ciutat que desconeixien, aprofitant que els seus fills estan de viatge de fi de curs amb el col·legi. La il·lusió per conéixer la ciutat amb la qual comencen el viatge es veurà incrementada gràcies al guia turístic que se la va mostrant. Però, a poc a poc, el que anava a ser un plàcid viatge de vacances es convertix en una emocionant aventura de misteri que els portarà a endinsar-se en un dels moments més apassionants de la història medieval de la ciutat. I tot, al veure"s involucrats en un intrigant assumpte amb dos protagonistes: un president de les Corts Valencianes amb térbols negocis familiars, i un grup de jóvens activistes anticorrupció. La intensitat dels moments que viu la parella fa que vagen apareixent sentiments contradictoris, desitjos secrets i sensacions noves que van propiciant el descobriment d"intimitats no imaginades i d"un desconegut món de relacions sentimentals.

El libro reúne una serie de capítulos que tiene como eje el estudio del cuerpo y sus usos, explotaciones y representaciones, así como como símbolo de expresión política, social, y cultural, a lo largo de la historia del Continente americano, desde la época indiana o colonia, hasta el siglo XX, con un enfoque multidisciplinario, y construcciones bilingües, amefricanas y transdisciplinares. Los estudios abordan una diversidad de géneros y razas, y diversos contextos y situaciones históricas, que van desde denuncias antijesuitas pombalinas acerca de los cuerpos en el periodo colonial de dominación religiosa; el empoderamiento de las mujeres negras silenciadas, manifestado a través de el cuerpo y las danzas: los cambios en los cuerpos de los indígenas americanos provocado por el dominio hispano, particularmente en los hábitos de alimentación, idioma y vestimenta, hasta lo experimentado por indígenas americanos en un “tráfico infame” de sus cuerpos, afectados por las nefastas enfermedades europeas, situación que se devela con base en la “etnográfica” fuente periodística: el trato esclavista, que no se suavizo en el siglo XIX respecto de los años típicamente coloniales del XVIII. Estos estudios y reflexiones en torno al cuerpo inevitablemente han llevado a autoras y autores a reconocer que las entidades fenomenológicas que serán actuadas como negras e indígenas en lo que llamamos en esta compilación como amefricanas, se desarrollaron en escenarios festivos y otros ámbitos de la vida cotidiana. Así, este libro aborda las diversas maneras en que el cuerpo actúa como un ente agencial, siendo esto necesario para conocer y reconocernos en el mundo y en nuestro interior, y como parte de los procesos históricos que han conformado a las sociedades americanas actuales.