Spain category: 3192 books
by Wayne H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its desire for international glory, Spain also was the only European country that continued to use...
by Lonely Planet, Regis St Louis, Stuart Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Discover the freedom of open roads while touring Spain and Portugal with*Lonely Planet*** Spain and Portugal's Best Trips,**your passport to up-to-date advice on uniquely encountering Spain and Portugal via el auto. Featuring 32 amazing...
A Vanished World
Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture.
In 711, a ragtag army...
From the Source - Spain
Spain's Most Authentic Recipes From the People That Know Them Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet presents Spain's most authentic dishes - direct from the kitchens where they were perfected.
From family bakers to Michelin-starred chefs, Spain's best local cooks share their passion for food and their region's...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Gain a better understanding of the ongoing crisis in Spain over the separatist movement for Catalonia. A controversial independence referendum in October 2017 plunged the nation into turmoil as the Catalan region threatens to tear the country apart. Several scholarly studies are included in this compendium...
Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition,...
by Charles Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
THE Iberian Peninsula has not always had the same form which it now has, or the same plants, animals, or climate which are found there today. For example, it is said that Spain was once united by land with Africa, and also by way of Sicily, which had not yet become an island, with southern Italy,...
Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain
Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
The book traces how Hildegart’s conception, life and early death can be mapped in uncanny manner onto the rise, organization and decline of the Sexual Reform movement in Spain. Conceived deliberately in 1914 as a ‘eugenic’ child (at a date when writing on eugenics was well under way in both...
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Geographically, Cataluña, the region surrounding Barcelona, is not unlike Spain as a whole. The soaring Pyrenees Mountains in the north separating Spain from France yield to the Mediterranean's Costa Brava in the east. Were it not for the ungainly resorts that have diminished its natural beauty since...
Protestant Missionaries in Spain, 1869–1936
"Shall the Papists Prevail?"
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Protestant Missionaries in Spain, 1869–1936: “Shall the Papists Prevail?” examines the history of the Protestant denominations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, throughout Europe that attempted to bring their churches to Spain just prior to Spain’s First Republic (1873–1874) when religious...
World Without End
Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire andbuilding on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” (The New York Times...
by Rick Steves
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Walk the Camino de Santiago, run with the bulls in Pamplona, or relax on Barcelona's beaches: experience Spain with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Spain 2019 you'll find:
Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip to Spain
Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your...
Grape, Olive, Pig
Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing
Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary Travel
Amazon Best Book of November (2016): Cookbooks, Food and Wine
Financial Times Best Books of 2017: Food and Travel
"Goulding is pioneering a new...