In the Spanish context, the Valencian economy evolved since the late nineteenth century in a peculiar way. On the one hand, a very intensive and export agriculture was able to generate high concentrations of population. ...

The relationship between technicians and politicians have often been controversial. The resignation of Henri Delaire and the secret process opened against León Olalquiaga in 1911 are two clear examples of these conflicts ...

From the perspective of social history in a comparative methodology exercise, this article discusses career centres spas located on both sides of the Atlantic, San Sebastián in Europe and Mar del Plata in America. Two late ...

Since the eighties the "constructivist " interpretation of nationalism has recognised in the African case the most recent example, and perhaps the most irrefutable one, of invented tradition. The subsequent research into ...

In this article we show, first, what were the main features of modern economic growth (MEG) in the Middle Ebro Valley, the macroeconomic results achieved in the long run and the evolution of productive specialization ...

Las posibilidades de promoción y mejora de la posición social que ofrecía la enseñanza profesional no dejarían indiferente al colectivo femenino durante la época de la Restauración, dentro del marco de la configuración del ...

The Spanish National Tourist Board, which in 1928 was the first of its kind to be set up in Spain, was highly connected with the personal and economic interests of one of the most important entrepreneurs of that period: ...

This article discusses the social and political networks set up during the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth for the benefit of the Royal Calpe Hunt. The Hunt was a military fox hunt based in Gibraltar ...

El artículo que presentamos trata de analizar la imagen que los habitantes de las poblaciones cercanas a Gibraltar tenían de los gibraltareños antes y después del cierre de la verja en 1969. A través de la prensa local se ...

The closing of the Gibraltar frontier gate in 1969, as a consequence of a decision of the Franco's Government and his Foreign minister F.M. Castiella, deteriorated the relationship between the British colony and the Campo ...