'Educación y Progreso Económico' : ciclo de conferencias en Valencia por el Inspector-Jefe del Distrito, Don Ángel Benito y Durán.

Se resumen las conferencias desarrolladas durante el Ciclo sobre Educación y Progreso Económico a cargo de don Ángel Benito Durán. Los títulos de estas conferencias son: 'Economía y Cultura humana', 'La Cultura humana y la Economía española de nuestro tiempo', 'La formación básica en el Plan de Desarrollo Económico' y 'La Enseñanza Media'.

Una nueva aproximación a la historia del currículum : los textos escolares como fuente y objeto de investigación : a propósito de la Historia Ilustrada del libro escolar en España, dirigida por Agustín Escolano Benito.

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Decreto de 27 de febrero de 1948 sobre conmemoración del XIV Centenario de San Benito.

Transcripción del Decreto mediante el que se constituía un Patronato de Honor para la conmemoración del XIV Centenario de San Benito, integrado por diversas personalidades del Gobierno de España y también por personalidades eclesiásticas. Asimismo, se creó una Comisión Ejecutiva para organizar el programa general del Centenario. Para la realización y gestión inmediata de dicho programa, se puso en funcionamiento una comisión permanente, presidida por el Director General de Propaganda e integrada por diversas figuras de la cultura española.

España conmemora el XIV Centenario de San Benito.

Con motivo de la conmemoración del decimo cuarto centenario del nacimiento de San Benito, se narran todos los actos acontecidos para tal celebración. Se inauguró el día 17 de mayo, una exposición histórica de la Orden Benedictina en los salones de la Biblioteca Nacional, en donde se pronunciaron varias conferencias y se extendieron durante días dedicados a todo tipo de celebraciones religiosas y culturales hasta el 31 de mayo de 1948. Además, se transcriben los discursos íntegros pronunciados por Pedro Rocamora, Presidente de la Comisión Permanente del XIV Centenario de San Benito y la conferencia que ofreció el Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores en la clausura de los actos.

From apotheosis to damnation: Mussolini and the Fascist regime, 1936-45

This is an essay for a catalogue of the exhibition 'Against Mussolini: art and the fall of a dictator' held at the Estorick Collection, London, September - December 2010. The essay examines shifting attitudes towards Mussolini in the years immediately preceding his fall, and suggests that the development of 'anti-fascism' was less pronounced than often suggested.

Fascist voices: an intimate history of Mussolini's Italy

This is a history of fascist Italy from 1919 to 1945 that explores through the private (and mostly unpublished) diaries, letters and memoirs of ordinary people, how the regime was lived and experienced. It sets out to examine the emotional, cultural and ideological landscape of fascism and to investigate what it was that induced so many millions of people to give their support, in varying degrees, to a regime that led the country ultimately to disaster.

The cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians

This is an edited volume of essays (to which I, as one of the three joint editors, have contributed three essays) that explores the cult of Mussolini from a variety of perspectives: historical, political, art historical, literary and cinematic. Much of the focus is on the period from 1919 to 1945, but there are also sections dealing with the cult of Mussolini after the Second World War.

Mussolini and the idealisation of empire : the Augustan exhibition of Romanita

The Augustan Exhibition of Romanita`, held in Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni between 1937 and 1938, exemplifies the aestheticisation, ritualisation and sacralisation of politics during the Fascist era in Italy. This article conducts a multi-layered spatial analysis of the exhibition that considers space as passively experienced, as an agent to re-map memory, as a mediator between intention and reception and as having both physical and mental characteristics. The relative sizes of the spaces, their sequence and their axial placement within the Palazzo’s plan were the most powerful forces that conveyed the exhibition’s overall political and social aims. The Mostra Augustea della Romanita` (MAR) is here analysed as a form of historical representation with a specific narrative which is played out within an orchestrated space in order to create and reinforce a (Fascist) political identity. The idea of Rome took on material aspects through a kind of ‘recognition effect’ for the visitor by presenting Romanita` as a collective mirror in which to view an image of their own social visage. Thus an active connection would, according to the organisers, be forged between a Roman past and a Fascist present, and its two leaders and creators, Augustus and Mussolini, as well as between the individual and society. The MAR also demonstrates the prevalence of the cult of Il Duce in Fascist society and its importance for maintaining high levels of consent. With its focus on a particular view of the ancient world, the MAR was an ephemeral event that acted as teleological justification for the advent and supposed permanence of Fascism, which at the same time presented itself as a unique archaeological, scientific and educational document of the Roman world.

Pinniped Populations at Islas ae Guadalupe, San Benito, Cedros, and Natividad, Baja California, in 1968

In April and June 1968, the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP) of the Smithsonian Institution conducted surveys on breeding marine birds and pinnipeds on various Mexican islands. Between 18 to 26 April and 21 to 29 June, pinniped populations were surveyed at Islas de Guadalupe, San Benito, Cedros, and Natividad off Baja California. Species observed were the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus, Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi, harbor seal, Phoca vitulina, and northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris

'Voluntad' de Benito Pérez Galdós : el camino hacia el texto definitivo. Edición crítica

Programa de Doctorado en Filología Española