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Lonely Planet Barcelona

by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Barcelona is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Savour the best of New Catalan cuisine, yell for your team at Camp Nou stadium,...

José Bergamín

A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936

by Nigel Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986

Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This...

A narrative of the campaign in Russia, during the year 1812

by Sir Rober Ker Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013

Sir Robert Ker Porter’s life was as varied and dramatic as his paintings. A noted author, artist, soldier and diplomat, he was born into a military family in Durham. After developing a reputation for his painting, he travelled extensively in Northern Europe, before accepting commissions for historical...

The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition

The Spanish Model

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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma. Its simplest formulation could be: was it the pressure from below, i.e. the organized working classes, students and neighbors associations that triggered political change; or was the elite settlement...

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

by Richard Baxell
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? *...

Red Barcelona

Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003

As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centres Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the balance. Focusing on the entire twentieth century, it allows for the emergence of long-term...

History of the War in the Peninsula, under Napoleon - Vol. I

to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers

by Général de Division Comte Maximilien Foy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon, he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent a...

Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt - The Retreat From Moscow

by Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vincence
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

Recognized as the most important Napoleonic source discovered in the last hundred years, the three volume memoirs of Napoleon’s Master of Horse are also exceptionally well written, and vivdly protray Napoleon during his disastrous last years of power. The memoirs of one Napoleon’s most senior...

Annals Of The Peninsular Campaigns, From 1808 to 1814—Vol. II

by Thomas Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013

When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also seared on his own memory from his service in the war as an ensign and later lieutenant of the 29th Regiment...

A Guide to Seville: Five Walking Tours

by P S Quick
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017

Seville is one of the most charming cities in Spain with its favourable climate and relaxed atmosphere. It is steeped in history and has a unique Moorish heritage that bequeaths the city a large collection of interesting buildings as well as those that are a legacy of the Ibero-American Exhibition of...

Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace

Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century

by Anne Marie Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014

Juan de Segovia (d. 1458), theologian, translator of the Qur'ān, and lifelong advocate for the forging of peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims, was one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Today, however, few scholars are familiar with this important fifteenth-century figure. In this well-documented...

The Crescent Remembered

Islam and Nationalism on the Iberian Peninsula

by Patricia Hertel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states that emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs of national...

Foreign volunteers and International Brigades in the Spanish civil war (1936-39)

by Bruno Mugnai
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

The International Brigades (Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.The number of combatant volunteers has been estimated at...

History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. VI [Illustrated Edition]

by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016

The product of twenty years of laborious hard work, this is the definitive work on Napoleon and his times at the helm of the French Nation, written by no less than the first President of the Third Republic. Thiers moved in the highest circles of society and met with many of the surviving generals...