The Cultural Centre La Nau of the Universitat de València holds on Tuesday, 24 of November, at 19:00, a debate on the occasion of the presentation of the extraordinary number of “Hispania Nova”, the first on-line Contemporary History journal in Spanish, that publishes research articles of different subjects about the contemporary period.
The journal “Hispania Nova” was founded in 1998 by Ángel Martínez de Velasco and Julio Aróstegui, and it is disseminated digitally. It consists of a number per year structured around a dossier and original and unpublished research articles. The last number is titled “Sin respeto por la historia. Una biografía de Franco manipuladora” (Without respect for the history. A manipulative Franco biography), is an extraordinary number published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco. The publication gathers in 348 pages several critical contributions about the biography of Franco written by Stanley G. Payne, Emeritus Full University Professor of the University of Wisconsin, and the journalist Jesús Palacios Tapias, who works for the publisher Espasa.
This extraordinary number, titled precisely like that “Sin respeto por la historia. Una biografía de Franco manipuladora” (Without respect for the history. A manipulative Franco biography), is coordinated by Ángel Viñas, who also writes the presentation: “Cómo dar gato por liebre a base de banalidades” (How to pull the wool over your eyes with trivialities). Each article of this number has been anonymously evaluated by experts, so to the ten people participating we have to add, at least, around twenty evaluators. In total around thirty historians collaborated in this project.
The genesis of this number is quite simple. “Franco. Una biografía personal y política” (Franco. A personal and politic biography) is the title of the work of the topic of the articles. It was launched during the second half of September of 2014. With that, it achieved to overtake nearly a year to the 40th anniversary of the dictator's death. The presumable reasons will be, without doubt, quite a few. The authors explain that they came to the conclusion that “it was the best moment to make a new effort of description and evaluation (...). Our readers will be able to judge whether we proportionate significant data for the comprehension of the times of Franco during the Spanish history”.
The debate will gather at the Assembly Hall of La Nau at 19:00 Glicerio Sánchez Recio, Emeritus Professor of the University of Alicante; Ismael Saz, Full University Professor of Contemporary History of the Universitat de València; and Manuel Sanchis i Marco, Tenured Professor of Applied Economics of the Universitat de València.
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Last update: 24 de november de 2015 07:00.
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