¿Quieren los españoles una democracia (más) participativa ? by Mathias Rull Jan

“…In order to verify this appearance, the article discusses three factors that make it possible to identify more precisely the participatory aspirations of Spaniards: the general value they attach to citizen participation; the origin of democratic innovations implemented in Spain during the first decade of the century; and finally the importance of party proposals in terms of citizen participation in determining the vote. …”
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The Concept of Fiesta in Spanish National and Cultural Vision of the World by E. V. Astakhova

“…The research determines such Spanish extralinguistic realities as corrida, tertulia, movida, botellon, indignados, analyses the role of the theater, of "coffee culture", of football and other phenomenons in social life and cognitive space of Spaniards. The knowledge of different aspects of fiesta helps to understand the word potential of Spanish language, its metaphors, and stylistic images. …”
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La expresión musical en el Centro Este chaqueño by Gerardo Roberto Martínez

“…The east central region of the Chaco was populated from the beginning of the 20th century by people from Corrientes, peasants descendants of the miscegenation between Spaniards and Guarani. This is a community town, with few words, but expressed through music; which is an expression of joy but also an expression of rebellion, resistance. …”
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El Códice X o los anales del grupo de la Tira de la Peregrinación. Evolución pictográfica y problemas en su análisis interpretativo by María Castañeda de la Paz

“…Pictographic Evolution and Problems in its Interpretative Analysis. Contact with the Spaniards meant the beginning of a process of transformation and change for the Mesoamerican writing tradition. …”
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Los saberes de los exiliados republicanos viajan de España a Argentina by Alfredo F. Dantiacq-Sánchez

“…Relations between Spaniards and Argentines have been good since the beginning of this shared history. …”
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Poder, prestigio y propaganda: los cántabros de Cuba y la revista La Montaña by Enrique Rodríguez Pereda

“…The Cantabrians who emigrated to Cuba between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century became one of the main communities among the Spaniards on the island. In accordance with their power, they decided to create a magazine that would showcase their prominent social position and, at the same time, spread the news from their homeland. …”
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The Public Image of Soviet Science During Franco’s Spain by Ruiz-Castell Pedro

“…After years of exploiting anti-Communism to enhance political stability, many Spaniards became suspicious of the Soviets and were convinced of the threat that their political ideology represented. …”
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Voluntarios en una guerra de tinta y papel: los voluntarios españoles de la Primera Guerra Mundial en la prensa by Alejandro Acosta López

“…One of the aspects that served to air the different opinions of intellectuals and journalists attached to the different camps was the presence of a contingent of Spaniards who had enlisted as volunteers in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion. …”
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The role of satisfaction in cultural activities’ word-of-mouth. A case study in the Picasso Museum of Málaga (Spain) by María Jesús Carrasco-Santos, Antonio Padilla-Meléndez

“…In a novel approach, an experiment (involving a guided tour of some of Picasso’s shortlisted works and painting a self-portrait) was conducted with 127 first-time Picasso Museum visitors (52.8% Spaniards and 47.2 % international visitors). The results show that strengthening the activation of emotions in tourists and non-tourists during cultural activities has a positive effect on their satisfaction, thereby positively influencing their word-of-mouth about the museum.…”
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Conciencia democrática e industria editorial en los primeros años de la Transición española : la Biblioteca de divulgación política by Marta Simó Comas

“…This series was the brainchild of Rosa Regas, under whose La Gaya Ciencia imprint it was produced, and aimed to explain a wide range of political concepts, tendencies, parties, civic institutions, etc. in a format that was readily accessible and intelligible to ordinary Spaniards.…”
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Une vision sexuée de l’Histoire contemporaine espagnole à travers deux œuvres d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, El arte de volar et El ala rota by Vanessa Auroy

“…Petra and Antonio’s lives expose the acts, words and silences of millions of Spaniards, women and men, caught in the conflict and its consequences.…”
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Spanish refugees in Portugal and the Portuguese solidarity (1936-1945) by Fábio A. Faria

“… This article aims to analyze the reception and route of refugees through Portugal in the context of the Spanish Civil War, a territory that, due to its geographical proximity, was especially sought as a place of refuge by countless Spaniards to protect themselves from war and persecutions. …”
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Le Saint-Office face au tribunal de l’opinion. Controverse et réforme de la justice inquisitoriale en Castille au temps de la congrégation de Burgos (1508) by David Kahn

“…With the aim of demonstrating that the setting up and continuing work of the Holy Office were achieved without the support of the Spaniards, and pursuing the topics of the Black Legend, the two fathers of the contemporary historiography of the Inquisition shed light on public opinion that was unfavourably disposed to the Holy Office. …”
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La defensa de la especificidad española frente al advenimiento de la cultura liberal (1833-1839) by Laetitia Blanchard Rubio

“…According to the defenders of carlism, these exemplary Spaniards fight to safeguard the kind of culture they wish could spread not only through Spain but also through every European country. …”
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La sátira de costumbres como artefacto ideológico. En torno a un opúsculo de 1808 by Claude Morange

“…Amalgamating facts and ideas in an unsubtle manner, the author of this volume indeed conceptualises the French invasion as the unavoidable consequence of the forgetting of their fundamental values by the Spaniards and as the result of another earlier “invasion”: the diffusion into Spain of ways of life and customs that came from beyond the Pyrenees. …”
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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…., and tests its validity for other regions of the Maya Lowlands, from the beginning of the Classic period to the arrival of the Spaniards, highlighting the parallelisms with other political systems found in Mesoamerica at the time immediately preceding the Conquest.…”
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NATIONAL WORLDVIEW IN BILINGUAL COMMUNICATION by V. A. Iovenko

“…The article establishes important types of divergences between Spanish and Russian worldviews which are relevant for translation, for example: abundance in Spanish mass media texts of specific and exotic national idiomatic units, bright stylistic locutions, figurative expressions, syntactic constructions, text structures which, when used in oral and written speech sound weird and unexpected for Russian native speakers. Spaniards often use words from different spheres of life (sports, medicine, warfare, etc) in political communicative situations. …”
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El desemparo como argumento : mujeres en defensa de padres, esposos e hijos ante la ley de expulsión de españoles de 1829 en México by María Graciela León Matamoros

“…Nearby 1827 were promulgated some laws and dispositions against the spaniards-peninsulares, and the most important was the Expulsion Law promulgated in December of 1827. …”
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Españolas exiliadas y emigrantes : encuentros y desencuentros en Francia by Alicia Mira Abad, Mónica Moreno Seco

“…These links developed most strongly in the areas in which significant numbers of Spaniards lived, such as the south-west of France, the Parisian region and Algeria.…”
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Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa by Diego Gaspar Celaya

“…Between 1940 and 1945 more than 10,000 Spaniards, thousands of them anarchists, mostly refugees in French territory as a result of the Spanish Civil War, fought in the French Resistance ranks. …”
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