Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.
Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest...
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats’s La CNT en la revolución española is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when...
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and...
The War and Its Shadow
Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Helen Graham explores the origins, nature, and long-term consequences of the exterminatory civil war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social, and cultural resistance to it and the memory and legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Not least is the growing sense of the...
by Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duc d'Albufera
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it."
This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that Spain became for the French generals, Marshal Suchet’s ability, aplomb and shrewdness gained...
by Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duc d'Albufera
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it."
This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that Spain became for the French generals, Marshal Suchet’s ability, aplomb and shrewdness gained...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...
by Duncan Gough
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Every year since 2000 I have ridden to Spain on my Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro.
This book is largely about my experiences on those journeys, but also includes articles on more general motorcycling and travel themes.
I hope that the reader will not only enjoy the telling, but will perhaps be inspired to...
Spain - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For many, Spain conjures up images of rapacious conquistadors, the unworldly Don Quixote, brave bullfighters, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough—but how does the reality conform to these stereotypes? The Spanish people are certainly distinctive. Visitors are often astounded...
by Venice Kichura
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Spain is country full of history, culture and many treasures. Surrounded by crystal-blue seas, stunning cliffs and beaches kissed with sunlight, it’s one of the most popular European travel destinations.This article covers the main attractions of some of Spain’s major cities including Seville,...
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...
CultureShock! Spain
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
CultureShock! Spain is the definitive manual for adjusting to life in Spain. Not only does it translate local customs and culture and warn against making any social faux pas, but it also provides practical information to enable readers to live and work in Spain with ease. Understand the Spanish love...
Interrogating Francoism
History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy.
Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies — Area Handbook Program. The books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and...