Spain category: 3192 books
SPANISH INTELLECT
From the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
It is in the history of Spain and of Scotland that he [Buckle] now seeks illustrations of these cardinal propositions. Spain and Scotland exemplify more palpably than any other modern peoples the baleful action of the protective spirit of Church and State; and the use to which he turns the history...
BRITONS IN SPAIN
The History of The British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A history of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade, of the two thousand British volunteers who fought, bled and died on Spanish soil between August 1936 and December 1938. The killed and missing numbered five hundred, the wounded over twelve hundred; many were incapacitated for life....
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
With the UK’s Foreign Recruitment Act making enlistment in a foreign army illegal, the British authorities became increasingly rigorous in their attempts to enforce non-intervention and implement the law, so Brigaders were recruited discretely through the Communist Party network by local cadres...
by Stanley G. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s...
The Romanization of Central Spain
Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD.
He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material experiences...
Spain Bleeds
The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Research into local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and of the International Brigades' Medical Service resulted in an informal trilogy of sorts. ¡Salud! British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 and Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances: British...
A Quaker Goes to Spain
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813–1816
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope...
Modern Spain and the Sephardim
Legitimizing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Modern Spain and the Sephardim: Legitimizing Identities addresses the legal, political, symbolic, and conceptual consequences of the development of a new framework of relations between the Spanish state and the descendants of the Jews expelled from the Iberian kingdoms in 1492 from its beginnings...
US–Spanish Relations after Franco, 1975–1989
The Will of the Weak
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
On September 26, 1953, the Eisenhower administration signed three executive agreements with General Franco’s regime, which allowed the United States to install military bases in Spain in exchange for economic and military aid. The deal clearly favored US Cold War interests, and critics soon denounced...
Franco’s Prisoner
Anarchists in the struggle against the dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Miguel García García was born in Barcelona in 1908, the seventh of nine children. He became a newspaper-seller at the age of nine, and an apprentice printer at twelve; he was a lifelong member of the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist trade union in Spain. Miguel García García...
by Gerald Brenan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.
Vibrant Andalusia
The Spice of Life in Southern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Almost a thousand years ago, when most of Europe was just edging out of the Dark Ages, the South of Spain was a brilliant center of world culture, a site of splendor, and a magnet for the talented and ambitious from all around the Mediterranean, the Near East, and beyond. Andalusia, or Andalucia, was...
by Patricia Ruiz Steele
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Hawaii! Manuela's small Spanish village buzzes with tales of life in a faraway land free from starvation and angst. In the early months of 1911, with nine children between three Silvan Hernandez (and Gonzales) families, they boarded a British immigrant steamer, the SS Orteric, bound for the Hawaiian...
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Stately Segovia is perched high on a rocky promontory overlooking the rivers Erasma and Clamores at their convergence. In the distance 12 km (7.5 miles) away is the silhouette of the Sierra de Guadarrama. The Moorish Alcázar is seated precariously at the edge of the cliff, the Gothic tower of the...