Spain category: 3192 books
by James A. Michener
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark,...
Spain
The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change-it was a time when...
Summary of Spain In Our Hearts
by Adam Hochschild | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Summary of Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild | Includes Analysis
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Adam Hochschild’s Spain In Our Hearts is an account of the involvement of US citizens in the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the experiences of a number of individual volunteers and reporters...
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.
Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest...
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats’s La CNT en la revolución española is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when...
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and...
The War and Its Shadow
Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Helen Graham explores the origins, nature, and long-term consequences of the exterminatory civil war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social, and cultural resistance to it and the memory and legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Not least is the growing sense of the...
by Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duc d'Albufera
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it."
This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that Spain became for the French generals, Marshal Suchet’s ability, aplomb and shrewdness gained...
by Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duc d'Albufera
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it."
This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that Spain became for the French generals, Marshal Suchet’s ability, aplomb and shrewdness gained...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...
1494
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."
--Toronto Star
In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells...
by Duncan Gough
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Every year since 2000 I have ridden to Spain on my Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro.
This book is largely about my experiences on those journeys, but also includes articles on more general motorcycling and travel themes.
I hope that the reader will not only enjoy the telling, but will perhaps be inspired to...
Spain - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For many, Spain conjures up images of rapacious conquistadors, the unworldly Don Quixote, brave bullfighters, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough—but how does the reality conform to these stereotypes? The Spanish people are certainly distinctive. Visitors are often astounded...
by Venice Kichura
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Spain is country full of history, culture and many treasures. Surrounded by crystal-blue seas, stunning cliffs and beaches kissed with sunlight, it’s one of the most popular European travel destinations.This article covers the main attractions of some of Spain’s major cities including Seville,...