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Britain and Spain are now both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Community. Yet the tiny strategic peninsula of Gibraltar still acts as the barometer of Anglo-Spanish relations. In this study, the authors chart the course of negotiations over the question of sovereignty since the end of the Second World War. They argue that Gibraltar has played a much more proactive role in relations, and describe the objectives and actions of the Gibraltarians and their claim for self-determination. ... Read more

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Describes the history and cultural background of Spain, as well as the sights young people would find particularly interesting. ... Read more

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Helpful, informative, and most of all, FUN!
This book about traveling in Spain masks itself as a children's book, but, in reality, it has been a Godsend to adults as well.Ms. Biggs' style is informal, fun, yet highly informative; it will get you where you want to go as well as to more off-the-beaten-track surprises.The drawings are charming, and children, as well as adults, would be well-advised to take this little compendium with them to Spain. Too bad it is out of print.Muir press should reconsider. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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"Brilliant. . . . This fascinating exploration through three centuries of the frontier is rounded off with a perceptive and balanced appraisal of the nature of national identity within the context of the Pyrenees. . . . A study which is exciting, learned, and thought-provoking, a splendid example of interdisciplinary history at its best."--Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

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Genious in a nutshell
This book is pure genious, focusing on the important issue of nations, identity and borders, specifically the Franco-Spanish border as it was deliniated from the 17th century onward.This is a fascinating account.Most would say that the pyrennes offer an ideal border and they would be correct, but how the nations were able to imprint national idenitities on the clannish localities of the mountains is fascinating reading on a subject most of us would never deighn to think important.A fun and important account, fascinating, ingenious and one of a kind in its originality.

Seth J. Frantzman

Fascinating study of territories and national identities
The Pyrenees boundary between France and Spain began in 1659 as a pretty arbitrary line, but over the course of the next two centuries it was worked out as a national border locally.Sahlins studied the Cerdanya, a valleyin the Pyrenees split between France and Spain, and shows how localismformed national identities that were necessary for delineating theboundary.

According to Sahlins, the changes that took place to form theFrance/Spain boundary were not only a formation of national identity, butalso a change in the governments' views of sovereignty, moving from an ideaof jurisdiction and dominion over subjects, to territorial control.Heshows how policy in the Cerdanya reflected this change from jurisdiction toterritory, the change from frontier land to a true boundary.

Sahlins'book is a fascinating look at what makes a nation, and a microcosmic studyof the formation of the modern nation-state.His study of the Cerdanyagives the book insights, not just into governmental state-building, butalso the construction of identity, the necessity of boundaries for peopleto define themselves in opposition to the other. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 4385 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: BLOOD GROUPS, SERUM PROTEINS, R MATRIX, IBIZA, BALEARIC ISLANDS

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Title: Genetic variation in population of Ibiza (Spain): genetic structure, geography, and language.
Author: Antonia Picornell
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: v68Issue: n6Page: p899(15)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 18, 2001. The length of the article is 2221 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La geografía del corazón.(España)(TT: Geography of the heart.)(TA: Spain)
Author: Silvia Nieto
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 18, 2001
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 78

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Inquisition Spain," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Inquisition Spain in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Inquisition Spain when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Inquisition Spain, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more