Spain category: 3192 books
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...
CultureShock! Spain
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
CultureShock! Spain is the definitive manual for adjusting to life in Spain. Not only does it translate local customs and culture and warn against making any social faux pas, but it also provides practical information to enable readers to live and work in Spain with ease. Understand the Spanish love...
Interrogating Francoism
History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy.
Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies — Area Handbook Program. The books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and...
The Most Noble of People
Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, and between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Rough Guide Snapshot to the País Vasco and Navarra is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Spain. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the major sights and attractions. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Balearic Islands is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Spain. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the major sights and attractions. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés,...
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
When Spaniards speak of the Levante they refer to that long and narrow strip on the eastern Mediterranean coast claimed by the autonomous regions of Valencia and Murcia south of it. In this "land of the rising sun" the coastline, over 500 km (312 miles) of it, is a shared sight with the mountains rising...
Distant Tyranny
Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian...
Heroic Spain
A Literary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2000
The book tells the story of an investigator whose views change dramatically as his knowledge of Spain quite dramatically grows in the course of a few years. He comes under the influence of the Catholic Church, very directly, as an experience that repeats itself in certain holy Spanish places. This...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a military and political struggle between Left and Right-wing factions in Spain. Despite the likelihood the Spanish Civil War would lead to a larger war in Europe, pro-democracy countries chartered a course of nonintervention and isolationism. It remains one of...
Genre Fusion
A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that...
by Octavio Alberola, Ariane Gransac
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This account of the role of anarchist activism in Europe between 1961 and 1974, by two of the principal protagonists in the events they describe, was first published in Spanish and French in 1975. To this day it remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history and development...
The Modern Spain Sourcebook
A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebookdocuments Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.
The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the...