Spain category: 3192 books
Exiles in Sepharad
The Jewish Millennium in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion.
Twenty...
Barcelona Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Barcelona Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Spain Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host...
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida
Back to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...
Malaga Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Malaga Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Spain Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...
Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain
Clashing with Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This book explores the role of young people in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing on their urban performances of dissent, their consumption of censored literature, political-literary magazines and comic books and their involvement in a newly developed punk scene.
After forty years of dictatorship,...
Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”
Through an inventive and original...
Granada Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Granada Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Spain Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Discusses all of the accomplishments of their reign, including the Reconquista against the Moors, the Spanish Inquisition, and Christopher Columbus's historic voyages.Includes pictures depicting the Catholic Monarchs and important people, places, and events in their lives.Includes a Bibliography for...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Galicia is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Spain. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the major sights and attractions. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants,...
I am Spain
The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry men and women who travelled to Spain to join the struggle against General Franco's fascist...
Valencia Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Valencia Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Spain Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
by Patrick J. O'Banion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain explores the practice of sacramental confession in Spain between roughly 1500 and 1700. One of the most significant points of contact between the laity and ecclesiastical hierarchy, confession lay at the heart of attempts to bring religious...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict....