Spain category: 3192 books

Hired by a bible society to bring the word of God to the Romany people of Spain, Borrow embarked on journey of mutual discovery whose result was this volume, published in 1841.  

6 works of William Hickling Prescott American historian and Hispanist (1796-1859) This ebook presents a collection of 6 works of William Hickling Prescott. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - History of the Conquest...

A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe. The author served with distinction in the actions of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro,...

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

Valencia is the capital of the homonymous province and autonomous community of Valencia. It is the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona. Despite being one of the major cities of Spain, Valencia can be defined as one of the hidden treasures of the country. Get now the Ultimate Travel Guide to Valencia and enjoy a great holiday with it.

Andalucía is an autonomous region of Spain. The population is 8,059,431 inhabitants (data from 2007). And its total area is 87 268sq.km. It is the most - popular and the second largest area of the 17 regions in Spain. And its capital - largest city is Seville. The district is divided into eight provinces...

Welcome to Madrid - the capital of Spain! Madrid is the capital of Spain, with its four million inhabitants and is the largest and city. Madrid became the capital only in 1562 and therefore does not have many historic buildings from the middle Ages. But their absence is compensated by some of the...

The Costa Dorada (Costa Daurada) is a Spanish Catalan area of many contrasts, from the scenic views of the Sierra de Mont Sant to the fantastic Tarragona carnival. The varied coastline has fantastic beaches, areas of outstanding natural beauty and beautiful seaside towns.

Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January...

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater...

Here is the full story of the Modern School told in transparently simple language. Here is the whole man, with all his ideals, aims, and resentments. It shows, as we well knew, and could have proved with overwhelming force at his trial had we been permitted, that he was absolutely opposed to violence...

Sam Dolgoff, editor of the best anthology of Bakunin's writings, has now produced an excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collectives in Spain. Although there is a vast literature on the Spanish Civil War, this is [was] the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers'...

This is not yet another book about the Civil War, and its author is not yet another academic jumping on the Spanish band wagon. The book is about what Burnett Bolloten in the opening paragraph of his remarkable book (‘The Spanish Civil War. Revolution and Counterrevolution’) calls “a far reaching...