Spain category: 3192 books
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Spain is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at Modernista masterpieces in Barcelona, enjoy beachside Basque cuisine in...
by Patricia Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Patricia Harris began visiting Spain shortly after the death of dictator Francisco Franco and has witnessed the country's renaissance in art, culture, and cuisine as it rejoined Europe. Drawing on three decades of intimate acquaintance with the country, she leads readers along twisting mountain roads,...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Discover Spain with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan on exploring Andalucia's White Towns, sampling the legendary nightlife of Madrid or hiking in the Picos de Euuropa, this new edition of The Rough Guide to Spain will show you the ideal places to sleep,...
Spain's Sendero Historico: The GR1
Northern Spain - Picos to the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This guidebook is for trekkers tackling all or part of the GR1 (Sendero Historico) - 1250km of waymarked route across northern Spain through the Pyrenean foothills from Puerto to Tarna at the western end to near L'Escala on the Mediterranean coast. Broken into 7 sections and 53 stages, the walking...
by Pilar Orti, Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Updated edition 2018, covering recent political events.
Planning on visiting Spain? Or maybe you are just interested in finding out what Spanish society is like, how its history, traditions, art and politics have made the country what it is today.
If any of the above apply to you, you...
Franco's Crypt
Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain
True, false, or both?
Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy.
Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment...
Monsters by Trade
Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure
With its mix of bustling cities like Barcelona, inviting beaches and Moorish architecture, Spain enchants at every corner. Be inspired to visit by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide Spain, a concise, full-color guide that combines lively text with...
Impurity of Blood
Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race -- that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting...
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...
Refiguring Spain
Cinema/Media/Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1997
In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinderhas gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain’s national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues...
The wines of northern Spain
From Galicia to the Pyrenees and Rioja to the Basque Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
There’s no doubt about it, Spain is the most exciting country in Europe when it comes to wine. As Europe’s second most mountainous country, with exposure to seas and oceans on every side, it’s very diverse in terroir, culture, language and lifestyle.
In northern Spain there are four main...
by Berlitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This fully revised and updated Berlitz Pocket Guide is packed with all the information you need to enjoy Spain, in a genuinely pocketable format. Places to go and unmissable attractions are explored within easy-to-use, colour-coded sections, so you can locate the information you need at a glance.
The...
by Barbara Wolf, Jack Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
As photographers and writers, Jack and Barbara Wolf know this world very well. They lived in Spain in the 1950s and loved photographing the people who were so strong and kind and full of life. It was fun watching them fishing for food, walking, gathering to talk and reminisce. Now the page of Spain...