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Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish "public sphere" and its relation to society and political power over time.

Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from "formal" representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Diaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements.

In recent years, the historiography of 19th-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.

In this long-awaited translation, Joan Maria Thomas cuts through the mythos surrounding Primo de Rivera's life to give a measured, exhaustively researched study of his personality, beliefs, and political activity.

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars.

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain's cultural framework and historiographical panorama.