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by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Map best viewed on a tablet device. An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war...
THE SPANISH COCKPIT
An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘The Spanish Cockpit’,...
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; “The Spanish Revolution”, 1979; “The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution”,...
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A brilliant portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. ‘Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.‘ Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph A bravura new interpretation of the course, causes and characters of the Spanish Civil War, still the twentieth century’s bloodiest...
Franco
The Biography of the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
General Francisco Franco, also called the Caudillo, was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. His life has been examined in many previous biographies. However, most of these have been traditional, linear biographies that focus on Franco’s military and political careers, neglecting...
Discover Spanish Phrases Spanish Phrasebook with 700 Realistic Phrases Spanish Phrases and Vocabulary Builder to Learn Spanish Words for Everyday Use
Spanish Edition 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
This is your quick reference tool and easy to use study phrasebook; this realistic and practical guide offers fast, effective, and modern communications.
Here you have a perfect companion for students, tourists and business travelers in South America and Spain. This book features a pronuncaition...
by G McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
New travel writing at its best, Pilgrimage relives the pilgrim's journey with affection and bite, lovingly descriptions of pilgrim towns and villages, poetica written with a vibrant and passionate pen.
Commentators say Pilgrimage is “beautiful poetic writing", with “inspired metaphor, written...
The Rise of Euroskepticism
Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...
SPANISH DIARY
A Swiss ‘miliciano’s’ war diary of the Aragon Front and Barcelona’s ‘May Days’
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In December 1936 Swiss greengrocer and communist sympathizer Edi Gmür and three friends left Zurich for Spain in a rented car. In Barcelona they joined the "German centurie" of the Deutsche Anarcho -Syndikalisten (DAS) Group of the International Group of the Durruti colum, thereby escaping...
Excursions in the Mountains of Ronda and Granada
With Characteristic Sketches of the Inhabitants of the South of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
CONTENTS (abridged list)
PREFATORY CHAPTER
Containing little more than an Invocation—A Dissertation—A Choice of Miseries—A Bill of Fare—And a Receipt for making a Favourite Spanish Dish
CHAPTER I
Gibraltar—Forbidden Ground—Derivation...
The Enlightenment on Trial
Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants...
Franco
Anatomy of a Dictator
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions - Franco, the...
FACERÍAS Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957).
The Libertarian Movement's Struggle against Francoism in Spain and in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
BARCELONA, Friday, 30 August 1957, 10:45 am. In the deserted Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, a burst of automatic gunfire crackles and, as if pushed by some mighty hand, a man on the corner of the Paseo Verdún and the Calle del Doctor Pi i Molist slumps against a low wall. A pistol appears...
by Frank Mintz, Chris Ealham
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional...