Books by "José Luis Fernández Fernández"
11 books found
Reflecting the considerable changes in Spain over the last decade, this work gives fresh insight into the formal and informal workings of this dynamic southern European democracy. It examines Spain's historical background, political culture, core political institutions and foreign policy making.
Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach of imperial bureaucracies and institutions for their own benefit. By co-opting the governing and judicial powers of local and imperial institutions on the island, residents could take advantage of, and even dominate, the contraband trade that reached the island's shores. In doing so, they altered the course of the European inter-imperial struggles in the Caribbean by limiting, redirecting, or suppressing the Spanish crown's policies, thus taking control of their destinies and that of their neighbors in Hispaniola, other Spanish Caribbean territories, and the Spanish empire in the region.
Complex Methods in Approximation Theory
by Francisco Marcellán, Juan José Moreno-Balcázar, Juan J. Moreno Balcázar
1997 · Universidad Almería
This book provides an up-to-date account of research in Approximation Theory and Complex Analysis, areas which are the subject of recent exciting developments.The level of presentation should be suitable for anyone with a good knowledge of analysis, including scientists with a mathematical background. The volume contains both research papers and surveys, presented by specialists in the field. The areas discussed are: Orthogonal Polynomials (with respect to classical and Sobolev inner products), Approximation in Several Complex Variables, Korovkin-type Theorems, Potential Theory, Ratinal Approximation and Linear Ordinary Differential Equations.
100 years of history of aeronautics and air mail in Costa Rica
by José Antonio Giralt Amador
2012 · Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
More than 350 photographs, in black and white and in color, many of them never published, illustrate this book. It relates the first one hundred years of the history of aviation in Costa Rica. Its detailed contents and beautiful design make it an exceptional reference document as well as a collector's item. The book begins with the development of world aviation, continues with the growth of aviation in Latin America, to then describe in depth the progress of aeronautics in Costa Rica. It relates the heroic times of the beginnings, in 1912, the romantic epoch of the consolidation of airlines and the development of air mail, up to the modern era of air transportation and the first steps in space exploration. In addition, four annexes contain a chronology of Costa Rican aviation, a summary of the main flights between 1912 and 1946, the history of La Sabana Airport and a synopsis about aerophilately.
Puerto Rican Identity, Political Development, and Democracy in New York, 1960–1990
by José E. Cruz
2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Using Puerto Rican politics in New York City as a case study, particularly focusing on political elites, Puerto Rican Identity, Political Development, and Democracy in New York, 1960–1990 argues that ethnic identity is a positive force in political development. José E. Cruz suggests that in using ethnic identity to claim and exercise social and civil rights, to pursue representation, and to access resources and benefits, Puerto Ricans sustained and enriched liberal democracy in New York City. This book shows how in carrying out politics in this way, Puerto Rican political elites placed themselves out of the margins and into the mainstream of city politics as significant contributors to urban democracy.