Spain category: 3192 books
Uncommonly Savage
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
“Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably important.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
“Illuminates...
The Refracted Muse
Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.
While...
Back Roads of Spain
Experiences, musings and thoughts about Motorcycling Travel and Life.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Making Peace with Spain
The Diary of Whitelaw Reid, September-December, 1898
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a “leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party’s politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era’s culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of his part in the Peace of Paris is the most significant...
Treating the Public
Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This innovative study uncovers the rapid expansion of...
Blue Division
Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study of the Blue Division—a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some 40,000 Spanish combatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or liberty) to the Russian Front during the...
by Gladys M. Imlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
This is a short history of Christopher Columbus and his journeys to the New World. The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial....
The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood
The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American
ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the
policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the
nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a
union operated to blur the line between foreign...
by John Allyne Gade
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS I. Salamanca II. Burgos III. Avila IV. Leon ...
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences...
The Mountains of Nerja
Sierras Tejeda, Almijara Y Alhama
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The little town of Nerja, on Spain's Costa del Sol, nestles under a range of mighty mountains. Less than an hour's drive from Malaga airport, these are the Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara Y Alhama. This guidebook describes 24 graded day walks suitable for all abilities, and range from gentle strolls to...
by Francisco J. Romero Salvadó
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: agrarian...
Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth
From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Harkema argues for the prominent...
by Ángel Pulido, Steven Capsuto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
With letters and photos from Jews in early-1900s Turkey, Morocco, Palestine, Austria and Romania
In 1903, four centuries after Spain expelled the Jews, a Spanish senator launched a campaign to have his country reopen relations with their descendants, the Sephardic Jews, and to let them know...