Spain category: 3192 books
Las dos Españas
Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century. The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues...
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
William Napier, was born in Dublin in 1785, one of a number of brothers who entered the British army and excelled in the service although it is his History of the War in the Peninsular that he is most remembered for. A masteful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and...
Death and Money in The Afternoon
A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume V: October 1811-August 31, 1812
Valencia, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madrid [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 15 maps and 6 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain
Saravia, Villalon and the Religious Origins of Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the Instrución de mercaderes of Saravia de la Calle (1544). It does this in the context of the two principal questions that economic...
The Spanish Armada
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war...
Guerrilleros and Neighbours in Arms
Identities and Cultures of Anti-fascist Resistance in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Spanish Civil War, fought between 1936 and 1939, was the first battle against fascism in Europe. Five months after the victory of dictator Francisco Franco in Spain the conflict moved to Europe with the outbreak of the Second World War. Fascism and anti-fascism again faced each other on the battlefield....
Spain's Martyred Cities
From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Spain's Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the Spanish Civil War between the Battle of Madrid in November 1936 and the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of the iconic events of the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions of the conflict were decisively shaped....
Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War
History, Fiction, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography,...
Eve's Enlightenment
Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists,...
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
by Sara Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom. Based on contemporary sources, Gonzalez is able to unravel the complex iconography of Spanish politics.
Spain Unmoored
Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Long viewed as Spain’s "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical narratives about the city’s Muslim past in order to navigate...
by Karl Laemmermann
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Gran Canaria Travelogue
Gran Canaria is noted for its rich variety of micro climates. Generally speaking though, the average daytime high ranges from 20°C in winter, to 26°C in summer. Some cool nights occur in winter, but lows below 10°C are unknown near the coast. Inland the...