Madariaga

American  

[mah-thah-ryah-gah] / ˌmɑ ðɑˈryɑ gɑ /

noun

1. Salvador de Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, 1886–1978, Spanish diplomat, historian, and writer in England.

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Example Sentences

In 1762, thanks to the muddled lines of Romanov heredity and the abdication of her unimpressive husband, Emperor Peter III, the Prussian-born Empress Catherine took possession of the despotic throne of all the Russias—a realm that was, in the words of Isabel de Madariaga, “quite alien” to modern notions of law, “a system of formal rules valid yesterday, today, and tomorrow for everyone.”

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“Catherine herself never wavered in the conviction that absolutism was the only form of government suitable for Russia and suitable for her,” Madariaga writes, but she brought to Russia a less militarized and more civilian model of political and social life—even as she expanded control of its neighbors.

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That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.

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Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”

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Madariaga’s response was exquisitely catty, describing Morison’s biography of Columbus as “a most interesting Life from the yachtsman’s point of view.”

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