Spain category: 3192 books
Power Struggles
Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits...
by Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian...
by Captain James MacCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The situation for the Duke of Wellington and his British and Portuguese troops in 1812 was somewhat perilous. Although they had chased Masséna and his French Legions from Spain, overwhelming numbers of enemy troops were still in Spain despite being scattered through the provinces. For Wellington...
by Fernando Gómez Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
With the death in September 2012 of Santiago Carrillo, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (1960-1982), we can expect a few biographies of the ‘father of Eurocommunism’ over the coming years. So, as a matter of record, we are republishing an extensive review by ‘Frente...
A Short History of Portugal
From the earliest times to the 19th century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger...
Walking and Trekking in the Sierra Nevada
38 walks, scrambles and multi-day traverses
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This guidebook presents 33 graded walks and 5 high mountain scrambles in the striking Sierra Nevada, the highest mountain range in mainland Spain and in western Europe outside the Alps. Easily accessible from Granada and Málaga, it is a world of soaring, snow-clad peaks and deep valleys, far removed...
by H. Morse Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger...
Who Should Rule?
Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown of the Spanish empire. Mónica Ricketts examines the rise of men of letters and military officers in two central areas of the Spanish...
Iberianism and Crisis
Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
"Iberianism" refers to a minority intellectual current which emerged in Spain and Portugal during the mid-nineteenth century and developed in step with the Iberian Peninsula’s successive crises. Iberianism sought to upend the peninsula’s political and intellectual status quo by advocating...
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by...
by Mary-Ann Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The provinces of Valencia & Murcia have it all: gorgeous beaches, stylish cities and pretty, low-key towns. From the sun-drenched beaches of the Costa Blanca to Murcia’s delightful, flower-filled squares, the region is a great base from which to enjoy the Mediterranean coastline as well as indulge...
Barcelona Travel Guide 2018
Discover Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.
The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable to feel like you've been won over by Antoni Gaudi's imagination by visiting places like La Pedrera, Casa Batlló, La Sagrada...
Barcelona Travel Guide 2018
[Design Edition] Discover Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.
The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable to feel like you've been won over by Antoni Gaudi's imagination by visiting places like La Pedrera, Casa Batlló, La Sagrada...
Holland House and Portugal, 17931840
English Whiggery and the Constitutional Cause in Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focuses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establishment...