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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...
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...