acase@tulane.edu / 1 / Bradley J. Mollmann

acase@tulane.edu / This dissertation is about the relationship between exile and national identity in Spain. Its focus is on how Spanish nationality was conceived during the Second Republic, how that national ideal manifested during the Civil War, and how Republicans continued to express their vision of the Spanish nation from exile as resistance to the Franco dictatorship. In particular, I discuss the effect of two different locations of exile on these Republican discourses of national identity: France, where the majority of exiles first landed after the Civil War; and Mexico, viewed by many as an ideal location to transplant the projects and ideologies of the Second Republic. My research addresses the different sociopolitical realities of France and Mexico between 1939 and 1945, the historical and contemporary relationships of those nations with Spain, and the ways the exiles’ ideas of Spanish nationality related to France’s and Mexico’s own discourses of national traditions. In Chapter 1, “Republicanism, Civil War, and the (Re)Formation of the Spanish Nation-State,” I examine the advent of the Second Republic as a unique opportunity to rebuild the fragmented nation-state into a cohesive whole, and I show how this nation-building project was heavily informed by the idea of “culture.” Chapter 2, “France 1939-1942: Rehearsing Spanish Identity from the Concentration Camps,” is concerned with the discourses of Spanish national identity developed by Republican exiles in France, and how these related to the French policy of interning Spanish exiles in concentration camps and, later, France’s war against Nazi Germany. Chapter 3, “The Mexico of Cárdenas: Life after (Re)Emigration,” focuses on exile in Mexico between 1939 and 1945. Here I discuss how the exiles viewed Mexican society as being closely aligned with their own values, ideologies, and heritages, and how these perceived affinities allowed exiles to develop a sense of continuity with the lost homeland. With its Trans-Pyrenean and Transatlantic focus, my work is an original contribution to the rich field of Spanish Exile Literature Studies, and it is my hope that it will contribute to Nationalism and Exile Studies more generally. / 1 / Kyle Lawton

acase@tulane.edu / The Mapa Uppsala is a map of early colonial Mexico City and its environs painted by indigenous artists circa 1541. This dissertation analyzes the facture, formal elements, and historical context of the Mapa Uppsala to recover and elevate the perspectives of the artists who created it. Through visual and historical analysis and a study of the map’s facture, this dissertation argues that the Mapa Uppsala is a visual and political statement made on behalf of the artists to help solidify a secure position in early colonial Mexican society amid dramatic cultural, environmental, and social changes. By contextualizing the map within a history of both indigenous and European mapmaking, this dissertation argues that indigenous artists harnessed compositional strategies and pictorial conventions from both traditions to effectively communicate their perception of Mexico City and its environs, simultaneously innovating cartographic production in New Spain. / 1 / Jennifer Saracino

This thesis explores two debates that came to a head in early seventeenth century in Spain, in response to a period of military, economic, and religious crisis. The first of these debates, on the "u201cMorisco problem,"u201d concerned the decision of whether or not the baptized descendants of the Moors should be expelled from Iberia, on the grounds that they had not become true Catholics and thus remained a corrosive influence on society. The second debate, the co-patronage controversy, revolved around the belief held by numerous members of the government and clergy that Spain would be better represented by two patron saints rather than by only one. The newly canonized Saint Teresa of Ávila was strongly considered, at the urging of Philip IV and his favorite the Count-Duke of Olivares, for the role of co-patron at Santiago"'s side, as a symbol of purity, reform, and the struggle against Protestant heresy. I argue that the arguments for the expulsion of the Moriscos, as well as from those favoring the co-patronage of Teresa, represent attempts to make Spain more securely orthodox in response to perceived external and internal threats posed by heretics and infidels. In both cases, we can also clearly see that the monarchy and secular authorities were willing and able to overlook the opposition of Church authorities even within these two discourses intrinsically tied to matters of faith, demonstrating a weakness of the Spanish Catholic Church when its goals came into conflict with those of the state. / Bryan Laird

During the first two decades of the 17th century King Philip III (1598-1621) of Spain and Portugal launched an effort to standardize all shipbuilding in the Iberian Peninsula. These efforts of standardization constitute an important collection of information about Iberian shipbuilding practices of that period. This thesis will analyze the content of the three sets of ordinances, issued in 1607, 1613 and 1618, in the context of the history of the Iberian Peninsula, the regulation of the Carrera de Indias (Indies Trade), and Spanish shipbuilding practices based on written sources of that period.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis--Universität Passau. / Includes bibliographical references.

Tesis--Valladolid. / Includes bibliographical references.

Tesís--Madrid.

Tesis--Madrid. / "Fuentes y bibliografia utilizadas para la confección de este trabajo": p. [9]-12.

Thesis--Valencia. / Includes bibliographical references.