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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 29, 2016. [1] [2] The book is an account of the American volunteers who participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. The story centers around several American ...
The history of education in Spain is marked by political struggles and the progress of modern societies. It began in the late Middle Ages , very close to the clergy and the nobility, and during the Renaissance it passed into the domain of a thriving bourgeois class that led an incipient enlightenment in the so-called Age of Enlightenment .
Albert, Cecilia. "Higher education demand in Spain: The influence of labour market signals and family background." Higher Education 40.2 (2000): 147-162. online; de la Escosura, Leandro Prados, and Joan R. Rosés. "Human capital and economic growth in Spain, 1850–2000." Explorations in Economic History 47.4 (2010): 520-532. online
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The number had increased to 2,588 by 1936. The percentage of women among all university students in 1900 was 0.05% compared to 8.8% in 1936. [11] While there were only 22,000 women in Spanish universities in 1960, by 1977, there were 261,000. [9] While only 5% of university students were women in 1925, the percentage had jumped to 36% by 1971. [9]
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2006. Deans-Smith, Susan. "Creating the Colonial Subject: Casta Paintings, Collectors, and Critics in Eighteenth-Century Mexico and Spain." Colonial Latin American Review vol. 14, no. 2 (December 2005), 169-204.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and the American Philosophical Society in 1982. [3] [4] Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1973 to 1990, and was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, between 1990 and 1997. [5] [6] [7]