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Hasta la creación del Colegio General de Todas las Armas, en 1842, la formación de los oficiales de infantería y caballería del ejército español, más práctica que teórica, tenía lugar en el seno de los respectivos regimientos, y los ascensos se conseguían en el campo de batalla con valor, disciplina y determinación. Un sistema y unos valores castrenses que en parte explican las vicisitudes políticas, los pronunciamientos, las revueltas y los conflictos bélicos que convulsionaron la España del siglo XIX. En la mayoría de ellos, directamente o en la sombra, tuvo participación el general Carlos González Llanos (Candás, Asturias, 1790 – Madrid, 1863). Educado en Tarragona para seguir la carrera eclesiástica, al estallar la guerra de la Independencia en 1808 se alistó como soldado voluntario hasta alcanzar, en 1847, el grado de mariscal de campo e incorporarse en el Estado Mayor General del Ejército. Esta obra repasa la fulgurante trayectoria de este asturiano que inició una saga de militares influyentes hasta nuestros días.

This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period of childhood from birth to the beginning of formal education at age seven. Illustrating the importance of understanding Jewish practice in

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Although the participation of women in the military has been the subject of attention in the social sciences since the 1970s, there has been no specific focus on this issue within the context of the European Union. The aim of this book is to redress this imbalance. Exploring the policies adopted in the United Kingdom, Germany and France over the past 20 years, it situates them in the unique context of the European Union. Through a survey of the political and legal dimensions of the wider recruitment of women into a professional milieu that has long remained a male stronghold, Ir̈ne Eulriet traces variations between the three countries back to differences in their public cultures. In doing so, she exposes the complex frameworks within which national military institutions operate and shows, on the basis of her European findings, that patterns of women's military participation vary in shape and content beyond what is commonly assumed.

From the late 11th century onwards, northern Europeans were also infected with the crusading spirit that swept the whole of Europe. With their knowledge of the East, their military abilities and experience, and their relatively new enthusiasm for Christianity, upper-class Scandinavians were well-placed to lead their own warlike expeditions to the Holy Land. Such upper-class Scandinavians were also both patrons and practitioners of poetry, and this paper examines two 12th-century expeditions led by Scandinavian rulers, King Sigurðr of Norway and Earl Rögnvaldr of Orkney, through the poetry they occasioned. In the 12th century, Norse culture derives its value and its new energy from this process of interaction with other cultures. An important aspect of this new historical context was the crusading impulse, involving as it did travel to distant places and encounters with other cultures. The poetry reveals that the Vikings began to experience the world of Western Europe in a new way, no longer simply as destinations for raiding and trading, but as destinations for spiritual and cultural activities. These encounters are faithfully recorded in their poetry, which achieved the unusual feat of continuing its tradition modes while also being highly receptive to new concepts.

In order to contextualise the papers in this special issue, this paper presents an overview and framework for understanding the importance of East-West migration in Europe associated with the EU enlargement process. The new patterns and forms of migration seen among East European migrants in the West--in terms of circular and temporary free movement, informal labour market incorporation, cultures of migration, transnational networks, and other phenomena documented in the following papers--illustrate the emergence of a new migration system in Europe. Textbook narratives, in terms of standard accounts of immigration, integration and citizenship based on models of post-colonial, guestworker and asylum migration, will need to be rethought. One particularly fertile source for this is the large body of theory and research developed in the study of Mexican-US migration, itself a part of a regional integration process of comparative relevance to the new European context. While the benefits of open migration from the East will likely triumph over populist political hostility, it is a system that may encourage an exploitative dual labour market for Eastern movers working in the West, as well as encouraging a more effective racial or ethnically-based closure to immigrants from South of the Mediterranean and further afield.

In order to contextualise the papers in this special issue, this paper presents an overview and framework for understanding the importance of East-West migration in Europe associated with the EU enlargement process. The new patterns and forms of migration seen among East European migrants in the West--in terms of circular and temporary free movement, informal labour market incorporation, cultures of migration, transnational networks, and other phenomena documented in the following papers--illustrate the emergence of a new migration system in Europe. Textbook narratives, in terms of standard accounts of immigration, integration and citizenship based on models of post-colonial, guestworker and asylum migration, will need to be rethought. One particularly fertile source for this is the large body of theory and research developed in the study of Mexican-US migration, itself a part of a regional integration process of comparative relevance to the new European context. While the benefits of open migration from the East will likely triumph over populist political hostility, it is a system that may encourage an exploitative dual labour market for Eastern movers working in the West, as well as encouraging a more effective racial or ethnically-based closure to immigrants from South of the Mediterranean and further afield.

Résumé Festy Patrick. - La fécondité en Europe de l'Est depuis 1950 L'évolution de la fécondité en Europe de l'Est est analysée en trois temps. Au début de la période, c'est l'hétérogénéité qui domine, les différents pays abordant l'après-guerre à des stades très différents de leur transition démographique : certains comme la R.D.A. ou le pays tchèque ont déjà connu une fécondité minimale qui se redresse ; d'autres comme la Yougoslavie ou la Roumanie ont encore une fécondité forte. Pendant les 40 années entre l'après-guerre et aujourd'hui, les évolutions sont souvent hachées pour chaque pays, sans synchronisation internationale : c'est que les mouvements à court terme de la fécondité sont fortement marqués par les changements législatifs dans le domaine de l'avortement et par l'adoption de mesures natalistes. Le bilan de la période laisse apparaître, au-delà de ce chaos, un mouvement vers une homogénéité beaucoup plus grande à un niveau souvent proche du remplacement des générations ; ce résultat, supérieur à celui enregistré à l'ouest de l'Europe, est sans doute le signe d'une efficacité des politiques natalistes, même si celles-ci n'ont pas conduit, comme espéré, à un redressement du nombre des troisièmes naissances.

Book review. Reviewed work: Screen Culture : A Global History / By Richard Butsch. Cambridge, UK : Polity Press. ; Non peer reviewed

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale, multi-disciplinary, cross-national feminist research project, FEMCIT, it develops an expanded, multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship as practice and experience. Remaking Citizenship pays particular attention to processes of racialization and minoritization as they impact upon, and construct, citizenship and women's movements in contemporary Europe. The book develops answers to two vital questions ₆ what difference have women's movements and feminism made to experiences and practices of citizenship, and how can we assess the state of citizenship in contemporary Europe from the perspective of women, particularly minoritized women? This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of citizenship, social movements, race and ethnicity, and feminism and gender theory from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, political science, history and anthropology.

Abstract In 1913, a new generation of Indonesians asserted their agency by publicly demanding equality in colonial society. Through four case studies—the prohibition of traditional forms of deference, the sudden popularity of Western dress, the adoption of new legal assimilation guidelines for Indonesians, and the discussion of employee rights at a railway company—we argue that this new assertiveness reflected a broad change in mentality that we consider a turning point in Indonesian history. By focusing on Indonesian agency, we challenge the Eurocentric periodization of the Indonesian past that emphasized WWI as a trigger of change.