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Silvia Rodríguez Villamil
Silvia Rodríguez Villamil (1939 - August 17, 2003) was an Uruguayan historian, feminist, writer, as well as a political and social activist. Biography Silvia Rodríguez Villamil was born in Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ..., 1939. In 1968, she published through ''Ediciones de la Banda Oriental'', her book ''Las mentalidades dominantes en Montevideo (1850-1900) : La mentalidad criolla tradicional''. This work represented an important contribution to the study of the mentality and idiosyncrasy of Uruguay, which had begun to be explored by Carlos Real de Azúa in ''El patriciado uruguayo'' (1961) and was continued by the work of José Pedro Barrán and Benjamín Nahum. A second volume by the author dedicated to "The urban and Europeanized mentality" was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Rodriguez Villamil
Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus. Silvia is also a surname. In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the '' Aminta'' written by Torquato Tasso. People with the given name * Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943), spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf * Saint Silvia, Italian saint of the 6th century *Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator * Silvia Bächli (born 1956), Swiss visual artist *Silvia Barbescu, Romanian painter * Silvia Bellot, Spanish motor racing official * Silvia Braslavsky, Argentinian chemist *Silvia Cambir, Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish- Portuguese dispute over the platine region. It was also under brief British rule in 1807, but eventually the city was retaken by Spanish criollos who defeated the British invasions of the River Plate. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America's leading trade blocs, a position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe. The 2019 Mercer's report on quality of life, rated Montevideo first in Latin America, a rank the city has consistently held since 2005. , Montevideo was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Real De Azúa
Carlos Real de Azúa (March 15, 1916 – July 16, 1977) was a Uruguayan lawyer, professor, essayist, sociologist and historian. Biography Real de Azúa Real was born into an old Uruguayan family, the first Real de Azúa having arrived at the Río de la Plata in 1794. He was a Catholic and, in his youth, an enthusiastic fascist and anti-liberal, an admirer of the Falange Española (a Spanish Fascist movement that was active in 1933-34), a fan of the right-wing journalist and politician Benito Nardone (who would later become president of Uruguay in 1960-61), and an outspoken critic of Batllism (the statist and redistributionist political philosophy of José Batlle y Ordóñez, president of Uruguay from 1903 to 1907 and 1911 to 1915). In his later life, Real described his early ideological journey as a beginning with “antitotalitarianism” and then progressing to “tercerismo” (i.e. “thirdism,” a via media between Soviet Communism and Western democratic capitalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamín Nahum
Benjamín Nahum (2 February 1937) is a Uruguayan historian, professor, and researcher. He is professor of Economic History at the University of the Republic. In 1979 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar .... His daughter was television journalist and writer Ana Nahum. Works *''Escritos de Historia Económica y Documental'' (13 vol.) *''Manual de Historia del Uruguay (1830–1990)'' *''Series de documentos de diplomáticos extranjeros'' (27 vol.) *''Bases económicas de la Revolución Artiguista'' (1964, with José Pedro Barrán) *''Historia social de las revoluciones de 1897 y 1904'' (1967, with José Pedro Barrán)) *''Historia Rural del Uruguay Moderno'', 7 vols. (1967–1978, with José Pedro Barrán) *''Batlle, los estanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graciela Sapriza
Graciela Sapriza (born September 12, 1945) is a Uruguayan historian and educator. Her research focuses on the social, political and cultural participation of Uruguayan women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Biography Graciela María Sapriza Torres was born in Montevideo, September 12, 1945. In 1974, she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Historical Sciences with a minor in Research from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. At the same institution, she obtained her Master's Degree in Human Sciences with a minor in Latin American Studies in 2002. Her thesis was titled "The eugenic utopia: race, sex and gender in population policies in Uruguay (1920-1945)". During her career, she has served as a teacher at institutions such as the University of the Republic of Uruguay, the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, the University of Málaga in Málaga, Spain, the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Deaths
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Uruguayan Women Historians
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguayan Feminists
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Uruguayan Historians
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