Miguel Alonso investigates in an article the perception of the Spanish Civil War which shared foreign combatants who fought alongside the rebel side. Through the analysis of this combatants memoirs, war diaries and letters, the author finds that besides...
The thesis "History of Barcelona Airports and Airlines Operating from 1931 to 1936" reviews the history of commercial aviation in Spain until the beginning of the civil war and documents for the first time the importance of the...
With the help of archaeological and iconographic sources and archival documentation, this thesis studies shipbuilding in Catalonia from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Galleys, ships and boats, the three types of vessels from that time, were different in form, which...
Of the innovations Barcelona absorbed from the European continent and overseas at the turn of the twentieth century, this thesis studies the kitchen, and does so mainly through the analysis of dramatic literature of Santiago Rusiñol. He, like other coetaneous...
Paul Spence is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, where he has twice acted as Head of Department for what is the only academic department of digital humanities in the world. Paul Spence has worked as a journalist, has an academic background in Spanish and Latin American studies and is an expert in digital...
In contemporary politics, friendship is associated with malpractices and corruption. This research examines the ethical and political work of Aristotle, who, contrary to current perceptions, considered that civic friendship could help to reach greater stability and a...
The Research Group in Agricultural Archaeology of the Middle Ages studies medieval settlements, both rural and urban, considering not only the inhabited areas and their archaeological record but also agricultural areas, their forms of social management and...
Through the study of the vegetation succession and sedimentological, geochemical and geomorphological data from the Lake of Banyoles (Girona, Spain), one study has shown that the Middle Holocene was marked by drying and cooling oscillations and by...
The tradition of burning the dead and placing their remains and those of the funeral pyre in ceramic urns spread in the second millennium BC throughout Europe, from the Carpathians and the Danube valley to the northeast of the...
This paper presents new estimates of social and economic indicators for Italy and its regions from 1871 to 2007. Data for life expectancy, education, GDP per capita and HDI allow discussing regional figures and analysing the evolution of inequality...
