Spain category: 3192 books
by Erik Lars Myrup
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal's early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup's Power...
by Charles J. Esdaile
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a...
France and the Spanish Civil War
Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage,...
War Drama of the Eagles
Napoleon's Standard-Bearers On The Battlefield In Victory And Defeat From Austerlitz To Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
The eagle of Napoleon was a potent symbol of military might, men fought and died to possess the “cou-cou” that his regiments carried into battle. It represented the fidelity of a regiment to the cause of the French Empire, and more particularly the attachment of the brave warriors who fought beneath...
Napoleon As Gaoler
Personal Experiences And Adventures Of British Sailors And Soldiers During The Great Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The lot of a prisoner of war is well documented in more recent conflicts such as the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf conflicts, however the British prisoners of war during the Napoleonic period have received scant attention as whole. Edward Fraser, a noted author on the period set out...
The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia & On a Chinese Screen
Collection of autobiographical travel sketches and articles by the British Playwright, Novelist and Short Story writer, author of "The Painted Veil" and "Of Human Bondage"
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia & On a Chinese Screen" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short...
by Major Troy T. Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula brought Spain, Portugal, and Britain into a close, if sometimes uneasy alliance. When an expeditionary force led by General Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the 1st Duke of Wellington, disembarked in Portugal in August 1808, the British Army had been at war...
The Spanish Civil War
Origins, Course and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
The Spanish Civil War was more than a fratricidal struggle. Nobody could have predicted in July 1936 that a failed military coup could give way to three years of vicious conflict, transcending national barriers and arousing passions and divisions throughout Europe. In one form or another, all the great...
Critical Muslim 06
Reclaiming Al-Andalus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the Spanish Orientalists, Emilio...
by David Wheat
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian...
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroquecharts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the...
Vikings in the South
Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de...
by Alistair Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Méndez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers...
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium
The Ends of Spanish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity examines how diverse manifestations of otherness coalesce in the cultural response to shifting perceptions of identity in Spain as well as the broader context of globalization at the turn of the millennium. Engaging issues...