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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which ‘women above stairs’ shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence-gathering and espionage. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of female agency, this collection demonstrates clearly that the political climate of Europe was often shaped outside the male-dominated institutions of government and administration. Contributors include: Helen Graham-Matheson, Hannah Leah Crummé, Katrin Keller, Vanessa de Cruz, Birgit Houben, Dries Raeymaekers, Janet Ravenscroft, Una McIlvenna, Rosalind K. Marshall, Oliver Mallick, Cynthia Fry, Nadine Akkerman, Sara J. Wolfson, Fabian Persson, and Jeroen Duindam.Trade Review"This is an important work for the emergent field of gendered court politics. It is logically structured and beautifully produced, with colour images of artworks appearing within a page of their having been discussed. It would be of interest for scholars and students of early modern court culture or gender studies, or to specialists seeking fresh insights concerning the biographies of particular queens from the early modern period, or of regents or ladies who exerted power within the specified courtly households." Elizabeth Reid, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon 35.1 (2018), pp. 141-142. "These chapters, valuable as they are, only begin to open up the large subject of how the activities of court ladies have been variously represented and misrepresented through cultural discourses and visual sources; and how cultural codes and social conventions constrained and shaped the roles women were able to play within courts. Much work remains to be done on these topics, but this collection unquestionably provides a valuable start." R. Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts, Boston. In: Early Modern Women, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015). "An excellent recent collection in the study of royal households with deep relevance for both royal and court studies" Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester) and Cathleen Sarti (University of Mainz). In: Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 2 (2015), p. 16.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of illustrations, List of contributors Introduction Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben PART 1. TUDOR ENGLAND 1.‘Petticoats and Politics: Elisabeth Parr and Female Agency at the Early Elizabethan Court’ Helen Graham-Matheson 2.‘Jane Dormer’s Recipe for Politics: A Refuge Household in Spain for Mary Tudor’s Ladies-in-waiting’ Hannah Leah Crummé PART 2. HABSBURGS I. THE IMPERIAL COURT IN VIENNA 3.‘Ladies-in-waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns’ Katrin Keller 4.‘“In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life”: Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria’ Vanessa de Cruz II. THE COURT IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS 5.‘Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella’s Camareras Mayores (1598-1633)’ Birgit Houben & Dries Raeymaekers 6.‘Dwarfs – and a Loca – as Ladies’ Maids at the Spanish Habsburg Courts’ Janet Ravenscroft PART 3. FRANCE 7.‘ “A Stable of Whores”?: The “Flying Squadron” of Catherine de Medici’ Una McIlvenna 8.‘In Search of the Ladies-in-Waiting and Maids of Honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Prosoprographical Analysis of the Female Household’ Rosalind K. Marshall 9.‘Clients and Friends: The Ladies-in-waiting at the Court of Anne of Austria (1615-66)’ Oliver Mallick PART 4. THE STUART COURTS 10.‘Perceptions of Influence: The Catholic Diplomacy of Queen Anna and Her Ladies, 1601-4’ Cynthia Fry 11.‘The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford’ Nadine Akkerman 12.‘The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-40’ Sara J. Wolfson PART 5. THE SWEDISH COURT 13.‘Living in the House of Power: Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court’ Fabian Persson Epilogue ‘The Politics of Female Households: Afterthoughts’ Jeroen Duindam Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThe middle classes of Indonesia’s provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics. Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) will only be available in the print edition of this book (9789004263000).Trade Review"Many of the chapters, then, are written by Indonesian scholars, and herein lies the value of this collection: it provides a view of contemporary society and democracy as it is seen by Indonesian people." – Emma Baulch, in Pacific Affairs 89.1 (2016), p. 230-232.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors Preface List of Illustrations Introduction: 1. Gerry van Klinken - Democracy, markets and the assertive middle Class: 2. Ben White - Betting on the middle? Middletown, Mojokuto and ‘Middle Indonesia’ 3. Nicolaas Warouw - Working class revisited: Class relations in Indonesian provincial towns 4. Jan Newberry - Class Mobil The state: 5. Sylvia Tidey - A divided provincial town: The development from ethnic to class-based segmentation in Kupang 6. Wenty Marina Minza - Ethnicity and young people’s work aspirations in Pontianak 7. Amalinda Savirani - Resisting reforms: The persistence of patrimonialism in Pekalongan’s construction sector Everyday culture: 8. Cornelis Lay (with Gerry van Klinken) - Growing up in Kupang 9. Noorhaidi Hasan - Islam in provincial Indonesia: Middle class, lifestyle and democracy 10. Joseph Errington - In search of Middle Indonesian: Linguistic dynamics in a provincial town Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. The Making of Middle Indonesia examines the rise of an indigenous middle class in one provincial town far removed from the capital city. Spanning the late colonial to early New Order periods, it develops an unusual, associational notion of political power. 'Soft' modalities of power included non-elite provincial people in the emerging Indonesian state. At the same time, growing inequalities produced class tensions that exploded in violence in 1965-1966.

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Book SynopsisForgotten People deals with people living at the fringes of the Indonesian society. It describes and analyses their livelihoods and styles of making a living from an insider perspective. While Indonesia has experienced steady economic growth for more than a decade, the livelihoods and lifestyles of poor people and migrants confronted with poverty and insecurity have received less attention. This book describes and analyses diversity in livelihood strategies, risk-taking and local forms of social security (social welfare) of people living below or close to the Indonesian poverty line. It puts two categories of forgotten people at the centre. Peasants, living in remote areas in rural Java, and Madurese migrants craving for a better life in urban and rural East Kalimantan.

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Book SynopsisIn Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits Jens Koehrsen offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America´s most vibrant religious movement. Based on pervasive field research, this study suggests that Pentecostalism stands in tension with the social imaginary of the middle class and is perceived as an inappropriate lower class practice. As such, middle class Pentecostals negotiate the appropriateness of their religious belonging by demonstrating distinctive tastes and styles of Pentecostalism. Abstaining from the expressiveness, emotionality, and strong spiritual practice that have marked the movement, they create a milder and socially more acceptable form of Pentecostalism. Increasingly turning into a middle class movement, this style has the potential to embody the future shape of Pentecostalism.

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Book SynopsisConsidering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O’Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Yılmaz.Trade Review"Considering Class is a highly beneficial source of intellect for both learners and researchers of Marxist class theory, especially those whose interests lie with contemporary analyses of culture and media... [It] presents its readers with new viewpoints on class by re-evaluating class theory from a contemporary standpoint and studying its place in culture and media. The book is worthy of commendation in that it successfully reintroduces critical perspectives on class theory to culture and media studies. It therefore proves a valuable collection of scholarly texts for researchers of relevant themes." – Ufuk Gürbüzdal, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (23 January 2020)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors i 1 Introduction  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition  Joseph Choonara 3 Social Class and Education  Dave Hill 4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions  Jonathan Pratschke 5 Class Segregation  Danny Dorling 6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation  Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology  Holly Lewis 8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case  Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli 9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa  Adrian Murray 10 On Intellectuals  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne 11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist  Lisa Mckenzie 12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right  Ferruh Yilmaz 13 Recovering the Australian Working Class  Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives  Anita Biressi 15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015  Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson 16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv  Milly Williamson 17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad  Michael Seltzer 18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014)  Craig Haslop Index

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Book SynopsisTwenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis focuses on elements that are under-theorized or omitted entirely from the economists’ analysis. This includes the importance of considering class and labor dynamics, the recent rise of finance capitalism, insights from feminism, demography, and conflict studies, the Frankfurt School, the world market and the world-system, the rise of a transnational capitalist class, the coming environmental catastrophe, etc. Our goal is to fully understand and suggest action to address today’s capitalist inequality crisis. Contributors are: Robert J. Antonio, J.I. (Hans) Bakker, Roslyn Wallach Bologh, Alessandro Bonanno, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Harry F. Dahms, Eoin Flaherty, Daniel Krier, Basak Kus, Lauren Langman, Dana Marie Louie, Peter Marcuse, Sandor Nagy, Charles Reitz, William I. Robinson, Saskia Sassen, David A. Smith, David N. Smith, Tony Smith, Michael Thompson, Sylvia Walby, Erik Olin Wright.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Lauren Langman and David A. Smith Part 1. Broad Reviews and Critiques 1 Class and Inequality in Piketty Eric Olin Wright 2 Vautrin’s Lesson: Historical Trends, Universal Challenges, and Policy Responses Basak Kus and Dana Louie 3 Turning Piketty into a Sociologist? Sylvia Walby 4 Predatory Logics: Going Well beyond Inequality Saskia Sassen 5 Complex Inequalities in the Age of Financialisation: Piketty, Marx, and Class-Biased Power Resources Eoin Flaherty 6 Piketty and Patrimonialism: A Frankfurt School Critique of Piketty’s Use of Marx, Weber, Political Economy, and Comparative Historical Sociology J. I. (Hans) Bakker 7 The Missing Element in Piketty’s Work Roslyn Wallach Bologh 8 Critical Theory, Radical Reform, and Planetary Sociology: Between Impossibility and Inevitability Harry F. Dahms Part 2. Inequality 9 Beyond Piketty’s Economism: History, Culture, and the Critique of Inequality Daniel Krier and Kevin S. Amidon 10 Accounting for Inequality: Questioning Piketty on National Income Accounts and the Capital-Labor Split Charles Reitz 11 The Political Dimensions of Economic Division: Republicanism, Social Justice, and the Evaluation of Economic Inequality Michael J. Thompson Part 3. Global Inequality 12 Piketty on the World Market and Inequality within Nations Tony Smith 13 Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational Capitalist Class William I. Robinson 14 The Piketty Challenge: Global Inequality and World Revolutions Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy 15 Global Inequality, Competition, Uncertainty, and the Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism Alessandro Bonanno 16 The Piketty Thesis and the Environmental Wall: Rentier Society, Post-Carbon Democracy, or Apocalyptic Ruin? Robert J. Antonio 17 The Adventures of Professor Piketty: In Which We Meet the Intrepid Data-Hunter Thomas Piketty and Hear His Startling Story David Norman Smith with art by Tom Johnson 18 21st Century Capital: Falling Profit Rates and System Entropy Postscript to “The Adventures of Professor Piketty” David Norman Smith 19 From Inequality to Social Justice Peter Marcuse Conclusion: Capitalism, Contradiction, and Crisis Lauren Langman and David A. Smith Index

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Book SynopsisThe Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van Schendel discuss new concepts of work and workers, including sex workers, slaves in Brazil, and voluntary communal laborers in North-East India, while Andreas Eckert shows the relevance of area studies. Jürgen Kocka presents a history of capitalism and its critics to date, Pepijn Brandon analyzes Marx’s ideas on the link between free and coerced labor, and Jan Breman looks at the effects of capitalism on rural solidarity through the lens of Tocqueville.

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Book SynopsisUrban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context examines the malfeasance and mismanagement that poisoned a city’s water. The authors emphasize the structural forces that engendered the water crisis, and, especially, the long history of racial oppression, racist government policies, and everyday forms of inequality, that shape the life chances for Flint’s residents.Trade Review"This book will be especially valuable to students and scholars of post-industrial metropolitan governments facing economic and/or environmental crises." --J.F. Bauman, emeritus, California University of Pennsylvania, USA. In CHOICE vol. 59 no. 10 (June 2022).Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Flint Sacrifice Zone   Terressa A. Benz and Graham Cassano PART 1 Structure in Context 1 Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation   David Fasenfest 2 Colorblind Michigan  The Legal Impossibility of Environmental Justice in Flint and Southwest Detroit   Terressa A. Benz 3 Stockton Isn’t Flint, or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven Urbanization   Raoul S. Liévanos and Julie Sze 4 Too Close to Home  The Incidence and Health Effects of Neighborhood Neglect in Flint, Michigan   Katrinell M. Davis 5 Housing Waste  The Lakeside Public Housing Complex, Pontiac, Michigan   Graham Cassano, Jon Carroll and Daniel J. Clark PART 2 Reaction and Resistance 6 Technocracy and Populism  Remaking Urban Governance in Post-Democratic Flint   Jacob Lederman 7 Waging Love from Detroit to Flint   Michael Doan, Shea Howell and Ami Harbin 8 Bottling Public Thirst  Scarcity, Abundance, and the Exploitation of “Need” in Mid-Michigan   A.E. Garrison 9 Lead Does (Not) Discriminate  Environmental Racism in Expert and Popular Discourse   Benjamin J. Pauli  Afterword: The Flint Water Crisis, KWA and Strategic-Structural Racism  Written Testimony Submitted to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission Hearings on the Flint Water Crisis   Peter J. Hammer Index

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Book SynopsisIn the past decades, the world has watched the rise of China as an economic and military power and the emergence of Chinese transnational elites. What may seem like an entirely new phenomenon marks the revival of a trend initiated at the end of the Qing. The redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites matured during the Republican period. This volume demonstrates both the difficulty and the value of re-thinking the elites in modern China. It establishes that the study of the dynamic tensions within the elite and among elite groups in this epochal era is within reach if we are prepared to embrace forms of historical inquiry that integrate the abundant and even limitless historical resources, and to engage with the rich repertoire of digital techniques/instruments available and question our previous research paradigms. This renewed approach brings historical research closer to an integrative data-rich history of modern China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Networks — Elites in Transition in Modern China  Christian Henriot, Cécile Armand, and Sun Huei-min 2 Who Are Elites? Elite Distinction and Who’s Who Publications in Early 20th-Century China  Sun Huei-min 3 X-Boorman: The Biographical Dictionary of Republican China in the Digital Age  Cécile Armand and Christian Henriot 4 Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution  Brett Sheehan 5 Structures of Empowerment: A Network Exploration of Women Activists’ Collective Biographies in 20th-Century China  Henrike Rudolph 6 “Service to the Empire and to the Community”: The British Women’s Association in Shanghai, 1921–51  Ling-ling Lien 7 Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing a Chinese Biographical Database  Marilyn Levine 8 Foreign Clubs with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary Club of Shanghai and the Politics of Language  Cécile Armand 9 The American-Returned Students: Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican China  Peter E. Hamilton 10 Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and Their Career Trajectories from 1949 to 1966  Yi-Tang Lin Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2016 and 2020, the Bernie Sanders campaign gave American leftists a path towards social change through electoral politics. In order to combat neoliberal and reactionary uses of identity, the 2020 Sanders campaign combined a working-class agenda of universalist policies with various forms of social movement activism. In doing so it compromised on universalist principles and socialist radicalism in order to appeal to distinct demographic groups and win the election. Bernie Bros Gone Woke reveals how intersectional politics contributed to the failure of the Sanders campaign – a lesson that the organized left must learn if it is to challenge progressive neoliberalism and move beyond postmodern post-politics.Table of Contentsb>Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 Democratic Brocialism  2 Identity Politics Is Class Politics  3 Progressive Neoliberalism  4 Post-politics  5 Outline of the Book 1 What Does the Professional-Managerial Class Want?  1 From the New Deal to the New Democrats  2 A Stratum without an Ideology  3 The Fall of the Liberal Class and the Rise of the Far Right  4 Left Populism as Compromise Formation  5 The Wages of Wokeness 2 Bernie Beats Trump, Clinton and Obama Beat Bernie  1 Millennials Feel the Bern  2 Whose Revolution? Whose Party?  3 Malarkey 3 Elective Affinities  1 Your Candidate Here  2 I’m Bernie Sanders and I Approve This Message  3 The Difference That Universalism Makes 4 Less than Bernie  1 I Know There Is No Democracy, but I Choose to Ignore  2 I Can’t Breathe  3 Sectarians, Splitters and Fellow Travelers  4 When I Hear the Word Culture, I Reach for the Political Economy  5 Role Model Ideology Conclusion  1 The Bipartisan Endgame  2 Meanwhile, Back in Wokeville  3 Political Revolution Inside Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhich were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into them as ‘others’? By engaging with shifting ideas of exclusion and difference, the authors in this book reflect upon the paradoxical centrality of the subaltern at a time when literature was deployed as a tool for nation building. The lasting presence of the Jewish and Moorish legacy, the portrayal of gypsy characters, or the changing notions of femininity in public discourse exemplify the ways in which images of marginal ‘types’ played a central role in the configuration of the very idea of Spanishness. ¿Cuáles fueron los mecanismos mediante los que ciertos grupos fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional durante el siglo XIX, bien a través de su exclusión de dichos relatos, bien a través de su incorporación a ellos como "otros"? A través del análisis de las ideas de exclusión y diferencia, los autores de este libro reflexionan sobre la paradójica centralidad de lo marginal en una época en la que la literatura fue una herramienta fundamental para la construcción de la nación. La pervivencia del legado judío y morisco, la representación de personajes gitanos o las distintas nociones de feminidad presentes en el discurso público ejemplifican las formas en que las imágenes de "tipos" marginales desempeñaron un papel central en la configuración de la idea de españolidad.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature Spaniards on the Margins  Marieta Cantos Casenave and Daniel Muñoz Sempere 1 Staging the Last Stand The Politics of Aben Humeya in Richard Lalor Sheil and Francisco Martínez de la Rosa  Diego Saglia 2 Aben Humeya and the Journey of Historical Myths On Telesforo de Trueba’s The Romance of History: Spain (1830) and its Spanish Translation (1840)  Daniel Muñoz Sempere 3 Moors and Christians in Washington Irving’s The Alhambra and the Imaginary of Romantic Spain  Marieta Cantos Casenave 4 El imaginario sobre los judíos en La España (1848–1868) y la Revista histórica (1851)  Alberto Ramos Santana 5 A Converso in the Canary Islands Counter-Narratives of Spanish Imperialism in Agustín Millares Torres’ Aventuras de un converso (1877)  Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer 6 Los márgenes del mito romántico y la identidad nacional en la colección La España Dramática (1849–1881)  Alberto Romero Ferrer 7 Marginación e intolerancia La imagen del moro y del judío en Doña Perfecta y Gloria de Benito Pérez Galdós  David Loyola López 8 Mujeres con tara La Educanda (1861–1865) y las mujeres al margen  Beatriz Sánchez Hita 9 Female Discourse on Spanish Identity: Baroness Wilson  Mª Isabel Morales Sánchez Index

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