State and industry in the 1940s: The Spanish automobile industry

The decade of the 1940s was one of the darkest periods in the country's history, with years of famine, repression, general misery, and impoverishment of all aspects of national life ranging from culture to the economy. During those years plans were made to establish a Spanish motor industry once the Civil War had come to an end in 1939. It seemed a propitious moment for private enterprise and various foreign motor companies presented proposals for manufacturing their entire vehicle range, from cars to trucks. However, the government plans were for a State monopoly, a policy which meant that any private projects which did not contemplate the regime taking management decisions were rejected out of hand. From 1941 onwards, any new initiative was required to meet the plans set by INI. The main argument running through this paper is that one can only understand the development of the modern Spanish motor industry if one grasps the haggling between motor companies and government regarding market entry and the impact of the regime's autarchic policies in the 1940s.

Aportacions per a una bibliografia de l'exili republicà català, valencià i balear als Estats Units d'Amèrica

This article attempts to gather together the work published in the United States and Puerto Rico by Spanish Civil War exiles of Catalan, Valencia and Balearic origin. Included are books, serials, sheet music, sound recordings and domestic movie videos, which have appeared in US territory from 1936 through 2004. The objective of the bibliography is to provide both an overview and a starting point for recovering the intellectual effort carried out by these exiles because this first inventory must still be completed with the addition of journal articles, contributions to monographs, and conference proceedings. There have also been exiles for whom books, music or videos have not been found, but for whom a certain level of intellectual activity is known or suspected. Such potential work would include articles and other contributions to journals in the US or cultural and membership activities of Catalan communities in that country. Without being able to offer definitive conclusions, it appears that exile in North America was a solitary experience, and never as a cohesive group or with the ties of mutual interests as was the case in Mexico or even in France. There were neither readers nor publishers to facilitate publication and to serve for creating group cohesiveness.

The Battle of Shiloh,1911.

This book is a detailed account of the Battle of Shiloh, written by Joseph W. Rich with an introduction by Benjamin F. Shambaugh. Eleven Iowa Regiments took part in this Civil War engagement that took place on April 6-7, 1862 in Tennessee. Iowa had more men in the conflict, in proportion to is population than any other state.

Dedication of monuments erected by the state of Iowa,commemorating the death, suffering and valor of her soldiers on the battlefields of Vickburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Shiloh, and in the Confederate prison at Andersonville,November twelfth to twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six,1908.

This book contains information on the dedication ceremony of Iowa monuments on the southern battlefields from the civil war and their final transfer made to the care of the general government. It includes history of the battles, photos and maps.

Political Emotions: Civil Religion and Melodrama in Spielberg's Lincoln

This essay focuses on how Spielberg's film engages with and contributes to the myth of Lincoln as a super-natural figure, a saint more than a hero or great statesman, while anchoring his moral authority in the sentimental rhetoric of the domestic sphere. It is this use of the melodramatic mode, linking the familial space with the national through the trope of the victim-hero, which is the essay's main concern. With Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, as scriptwriter, it is perhaps not surprising that melodrama is the operative mode in the film. One of the issues that emerge from this analysis is how the film updates melodrama for a contemporary audience in order to minimize what could be perceived as manipulative sentimental devices, observing for most of the film an aesthetic of relative sobriety and realism. In the last hour, and especially the final minutes of the film, melodramatic conventions are deployed in full force and infused with hagiographic iconography to produce a series of emotionally charged moments that create a perfect union of American Civil Religion and classical melodrama. The cornerstone of both cultural paradigms, as deployed in this film, is death: Lincoln's at the hands of an assassin, and the Civil War soldiers', poignantly depicted at key moments of the film. Finally, the essay shows how film melodrama as a genre weaves together the private and the public, the domestic with the national, the familial with the military, and links pathos to politics in a carefully choreographed narrative of sentimentalized mythopoesis.

Cultura obrera y prensa anarquista: radiografia de Guerra di Classe, plataforma de los anarquistas italianos durante la Guerra Civil en Catalunya, 1936-1938

Giovanni C. Cattini is a young historian who offers an itemized study on Berneri's Guerra di Classe: he refers the first moments and also the definitive crisis of this newspaper after Berneri¿s assassination in May 1937. This is not the first work devoted to this militant platform has been annalysed but Cattini's approach observes not only the ideological and political contest maintained with other sectors of the libertarian movement but the contrived militant tools that have allowed its existance during the Spanish Civil War.

Soldats perpetuats en l'oblit

L'article es pregunta i respon quin fou el tracte envers els soldats morts al camp de batalla durant la Guerra Civil espanyola (1936-1939); el sistema d'inhumació que reberen en funció de l'exèrcit al qual pertanyien tant durant la guerra com després, i constata com les fosses comunes de soldats són arreu, tant a l'Estat com a Catalunya.

Cultura obrera y prensa anarquista: radiografia de Guerra di Classe, plataforma de los anarquistas italianos durante la Guerra Civil en Catalunya, 1936-1938

Giovanni C. Cattini is a young historian who offers an itemized study on Berneri's Guerra di Classe: he refers the first moments and also the definitive crisis of this newspaper after Berneri¿s assassination in May 1937. This is not the first work devoted to this militant platform has been annalysed but Cattini's approach observes not only the ideological and political contest maintained with other sectors of the libertarian movement but the contrived militant tools that have allowed its existance during the Spanish Civil War.

Soldats perpetuats en l'oblit

L'article es pregunta i respon quin fou el tracte envers els soldats morts al camp de batalla durant la Guerra Civil espanyola (1936-1939); el sistema d'inhumació que reberen en funció de l'exèrcit al qual pertanyien tant durant la guerra com després, i constata com les fosses comunes de soldats són arreu, tant a l'Estat com a Catalunya.

La depuración del personal del Museo Arqueológico de Barcelona y del Servicio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas después de la Guerra Civil (1939-1941)

Al finalizar la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939), el personal del Museu d' Arqueologia y de la Secció d'Excavacions i Arqueologia del Servei del Patrimoni Artístic, Historic i Científic (SPAHC) de la suprimida Generalitat de Catalunya fue sometido a depuración por parte del Juzgado Militar Especial de Funcionarios de la Diputación Provincial de Barcelona. La llegada como nuevo director de Martín Almagro Basch, en substitución del exiliado Pere Bosch Gimpera, y el resultado de la reorganización subsiguiente marcaron el desarrollo de la investigación arqueológica en Cataluña hasta finales de la década de 1960.

La Guerra al cor : creació d'un recital coral-espectacle al voltant de la Guerra Civil Espanyola

La Guerra al Cor és un espectacle a mig camí entre el concert coral i el recital literari. A partir de la lectura i la tria d'un gran corpus de literatura catalana al voltant de la Guerra Civil i de la tria d'un repertori coral universal i heterogeni, s'ha confeccionat un guió entrellaçant ambdós elements. En aquest treball escrit s'argumentarà aquesta tria mitjançant la reflexió sobre els concerts interdisciplinars i l'estudi del context històric, literari i musical del conflicte en qüestió.

Forma Conventus Tarraconenesis I: Baetulo-Blanda. La primera carta arqueològica de la Península Ibèrica

Josep de Calasanç Serra i Ràfols va dedicar una part molt important de la seva vida professional a la topografia arqueològica, als arxius del Servei d’Investigacions Arqueològiques de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans i a fer el seguiment de la descoberta i l’evolució dels jaciments arqueològics del país. En consonància amb aquesta labor, el 1928 va publicar la primera carta arqueològica de la península Ibèrica, una de les primeres corresponents al programa Forma Orbis Romani, de la Unió Acadèmica Internacional. Després de la Guerra Civil, proposem que fou el principal redactor de la Carta Arqueológica de España. Barcelona, que representa la tercera carta arqueològica publicada a la península Ibèrica.

La Història oral com a patrimoni cultural immaterial: estudi de cas

En aquest treball es parteix de la concepció que la història oral i les històries de vida són elements del patrimoni cultural immaterial i com a tals caldria conservar i protegir. S’exposa el testimoni d’un ciutadà de Girona, Narcís Lecha, el meu avi matern, durant el període de la Segona República, la Guerra Civil i l’exili. A partir del qual extraurem diferents aspectes col•lectivament rellevants. L’objectiu principal d’aquest treball és l’estudi i la difusió d’una història de vida que ens aporta coneixement sobre un període cabdal de la nostra història

La Història oral com a patrimoni cultural immaterial: estudi de cas

En aquest treball es parteix de la concepció que la història oral i les històries de vida són elements del patrimoni cultural immaterial i com a tals caldria conservar i protegir. S’exposa el testimoni d’un ciutadà de Girona, Narcís Lecha, el meu avi matern, durant el període de la Segona República, la Guerra Civil i l’exili. A partir del qual extraurem diferents aspectes col•lectivament rellevants. L’objectiu principal d’aquest treball és l’estudi i la difusió d’una història de vida que ens aporta coneixement sobre un període cabdal de la nostra història

Historia, patrimonio y territorio: políticas públicas de memoria en el frente del Segre y la frontera pirenaica catalana

La relación entre historia, patrimonio y territorio, en unos espacios culturales de clara relevancia durante la Guerra Civil y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, permite reflexionar sobre algunas políticas públicas de memoria desarrolladas a raíz de la confluencia que se ha dado entre el Programa Memorial Democràtic impulsado por la Generalitat de Catalunya, la acción decidida de algunos ayuntamientos comprometidos en preservar la memoria histórica, el mundo académico representado por la Universidad y el asociacionismo civil.