In his perceptive work on the interrelationship between history and literature, Louis Montrose advocates a resituation of texts within their contexts, which leads to "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history" (20). For Montrose, aesthetic works can historicize the past and provide an understanding and explanation of times past, but they cannot provide an ...

Abstract This article studies the persistent effects of past agrarian inequality on contemporary voting preferences. Although Western European countries became industrial (and later post-industrial) economies, political cleavage are still visible in those which issue was dominant interwar period (the laggards). Looking at spatial variation patterns fifteen elections held Spain since 1977, we sh...

The present paper is aimed at understanding how indigenous people in the highlands of Ecuador adapt to capitalist economic alternatives in order to complement their agrarian economies. Specifically this study examines the experience of the indigenous community Ponce-Quilotoa located next to the Volcanic Lake Quilotoa in the central highlands of Ecuador. This community is currently undertaking t...