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The eighteenth century books from the collection of the old digital library of the Library University Seville are analyzed to locate the parts made with decorated papers, in order to classify and describe them according to the proposals of specialized literature. For this, the records included in the repository of the digital collection are recovered, the digital reproductions of the books are visualized, the parts with decorated papers are identified and described following the decorated papers classification model, previously elaborated, based on the research of Professor Carpallo Bautista. The model is made up of 6 techniques and their variants. Of the more than 6.700 records from the 18th century in the collection of the digital ancient collection, 511 include decorated papers in their bindings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the first tourists' guidebooks on Spain published between 1840 and 1930. The aim is to highlight the contrast between the socioeconomic vision of the country reflected in the foreign guidebooks aimed at the Anglo-Saxon public, where certain stereotypes maintained a notable weight, and the vision offered by the little-known Spanish guidebooks, aimed at the national tourists, which did give an account of the transformation of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper tackles, from a historical perspective, the travelogue Vivid Spain (1926), written by the Bostonian Joe Mitchell Chapple as a result of his journey throughout Spain. The main aim of this work is to study in detail the vision of this North American traveller across the Peninsula. With this purpose, an analysis of the aforementioned work will be carried out taking into account its form and content, supported by the public opinion and the impact it generated in the American historical press of the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seven new interesting records for the flora of Almería and Granada (Spain) are listed in this paper. Among them, Ferulago ternatifolia and Teucrium spinosum would be the most relevant cited species due to their rarity or their particular distribution areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to explore the current state of agritourism in Spain by taking a supplyside perspective. Following on from a theoretical-conceptual analysis of agritourism, the presence of this activity within the Spanish legal-administrative framework and the provisions made for it therein are examined, and its territorial distribution within Spain is described. Despite the existence of a tourism framework that is apparently favourable to agritourism, given current trends in tourism demand and Spain's great potential for tourism, the level of development and implementation of agritourism in Spain is not as advanced as that in other European countries. The recognition of agritourism and, consequently, the development of an identity that is distinct from that of other types of tourism have not, as yet, been adequately addressed in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish Regional Development Agencies (ADRs in their Spanish acronym) are organisms whose purpose is to promote the development of their regions, including direct support to firms established in their territories. This paper presents the results of a study conducted by means of a questionnaire whose objective was to determine the instruments and practices related to Competitive Intelligence (CI) developed by Spanish ADRs: the systems created, informative typologies and platforms used, functions of the IC units, training processes, personnel, membership of networks, and systems of promotion. Nine agencies responded. The findings point to the sparsity of official structures concerning Competitive Intelligence, although there do exist organisms in which Intelligence policies are more advanced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

14 new or interesting records for the flora of Albacete, Almeria and Granada are listed in this paper. For each species, chorological, taxonomic and ecology data are included. Furthermore, data belonging to their Conservation status are added, in order to take into account them in further revisions of Catalogues of threatened flora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper moves from the contrast between the educational discourse in the first Spanish liberalism (1810-1814 and 1820-1823) and the educational policy of the liberal regime from 1836 to 1870, as well as, within the same liberalism, the contrast between those supporting the unlimited academic freedom and those defending the public or state intervention. Both contrasts are approached from a triple perspective: the financial aspects are particularly considered from a political point of view; the schooling and literacy processes are tackled from a quantitative and qualitative standpoint; the textbook production and marketing are finally examined from a socioeconomic viewpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the liberal trade policy between 1820 and 1869, marked by the debate prohibitionism/protectionismliberalism, and the opening of the Spanish economy during that period. It concludes that in spite of the prohibitionist/protectionist resistances, the Spanish economy followed a model of economic development open abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current context, in which universities and their faculty must adapt their roll to legislative requirements linked to increased research, libraries play a crucial role in responding to this demand, reinforcing the provision of specific services to support Researchers. It is in this sense that the present article aims to provide an overview of which are the research support services provided by the libraries linked to REBIUN. With this intention, a survey was conducted among libraries's directors of these universities, and those results are offered in this paper. Thus, this article presents and analyzes the data collected, with a special focus on services focused on training, counseling and helping to disseminate the results of researchers. Regarding to principal findings, there is a global behavior among libraries in issues related to use and training on information resources. But there is a huge difference between libraries when the services to be offered are related to the integration of library services into researchers's team. This, perhaps, is due to the structure of the university where the library is acting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reconstruct little-know aspects about the biography of the Spanish medievalist Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (1893-1984). At the same time, we analyse the personal causes and the historical circumstances that led one of the most important Spanish historians from the first half of the 20th century to emigrate to Buenos Aires, and in what way that experience resulted in the foundation of the Cuadernos de Historia de España. We highlight the intellectual and historiographic significance of this foundation for Hispanic medievalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this paper is to analyse present fertility intensity differences within Spanish provinces, focusing on differences between province capitals and the rest of their respective provinces, and on how these have recently changed. Despite fertility differences between provinces are widely treated in the literature, differences within them and their changes across time are far less explored. Results indicate that there are two different trends. In capitals of urban provinces -particularly in capital cities with no space to grow and, therefore, affected by significant suburbanisation flows-, fertility is lower there than in the rest of the province. However, in rural provinces, where young cohorts concentrate in their capitals, fertility is higher here than in the rest of the province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes of Mexican inmgration in Spain from 2003 to 2013. The methodology used analysis of data of the Observatorio Permanente de la Inmigración to determine characteristics as number of residents, including nationalized, cities concentration, gender, age, level of education. We tried two hypotheses: 1) the Mexican inmigrants are similar group in socio demographic characteristics and 2) choosing Spain to continue their graduate studies to continue their education. Some build labour and/or sentimental relationships that make their stay permanent, either for studies (academic immigration), or to start a new life with their Spaniard partner (sentimental immigration). This work describes Mexican inmigrants in Spain, bachelor's degree, typically 35 year old of middle class, who reside mainly in four cities. Women outnumber men. Residence permit obtained by marriage with Spanish people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this paper is to show some provisional evidences for male-female wage disparity in the Spanish labour market from c. 1850 to 1975. The goal is to sort the available data, to analyse them all together from a critical perspective and to put forward some ideas on the historical behaviour of gender wage gap. The quantitative evidence provided leads to three main ideas. First, official records have placed women in a subordinate position that does not correspond to their contribution to the production system. Second, female wages have been historically lower than male wages and wage differentials by sex remained fairly stable in Spain in the period under study. Third, the gender wage gap has been traditionally accompanied by occupational segregation by industry and by occupational categories. These findings, although incompletes and biased, serve to start a debate on this topic, and to promote new research in this field. In any case, this article aims to recognise women's labour force in the Spanish economy from a historical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1974, Valdezcaray ski resort was built. It is located in the Sierra de la Demanda, which is crossed by the rivers Oja and Najerilla (Iberian System, in La Rioja, Spain). It is a small ski resort (22.6 Km of ski area) sponsored by the Town Hall of Ezcaray (Oja Valley), in order to boost tourism and break the regressive process that had been dragging on for decades in the Demanda area. This paper examines: i) the influence of Valdezcaray in the evolution of the population as well as in the demographic structure, and ii) the impact of the touristic sector development in primary activities (development of farms, agricultural livestock census and farmland) of the region. The results obtained indicate that the ski resort affects only a small area: the Oja Valley, especially the village of Ezcaray, but not the Najerilla Valley. In the first one, demographic trends and primary sector evolution have been positive and both of them have helped to improve the population structure. However, in the Najerilla Valley, population, livestock and farmland are still going down further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show the historical importance of the Instituto de Ciencias del Hombre for the development of psychology in Spain. The Instituto de Ciencias del Hombre was a private institution which gave support to Spanish psychology in a very crucial moment of its history. As identified in the analysis of primary sources, the Institute promoted the attractiveness of psychology in a growing number of potential customers. Indeed, while Spain was going through a political transition from dictatorship to democracy, and psychology was striving for its academic, scientific and professional consolidation, the Instituto de Ciencias del Hombre organized a number of activities which greatly contributed to stimulate an interest in psychological knowledge. The work of the Instituto, however, has gone inexplicably unnoticed by most of the historians devoting themselves to the institutional analysis of Spanish psychological history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper an analysis is made of the role played by bovids at large (i.e., the species Bos taurus that includes cows, calves, oxen, and specially bulls) during the Middle Ages. The aim is to reveal the symbiosis existing between the symbolic and biological roles played by the bull. For this reason, the first part of the work, dealing with the animal as a provider of meat, the material relationship between people and cattle is exemplified in the exploitation of the animal not only for dietary purposes but also as a provider of other goods, as well as its connections to the Mesta. In the second part, addresses the role of the bull within the nonmaterial realm as well as the differences existing between its religious and civil connotations. Lastly, we address the interrelationships between the natural and mental or symbolic spheres as exemplified by medieval bullfights. The differences between these early events and those taking place nowadays are evident and thoroughly surveyed. Medieval Madrid was not alien to any of these traditions that include beef production, leather, blood, art and symbol and the material expression of such developments is embodied by a specific breed named the jarameño. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]