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  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...

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...

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....

When Antonio María Bucareli took up his duties in 1771 as the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, he assumed command of a magnificent complexity of land areas, large and small, whose people constituted a cultural and social entity ranging from the traditional Apache to the European gentleman of the Enlightenment....

JUAN BUSQUETS VERGES was only 21 when he was arrested for his activities with the anti-Francoist urban and rural anarchist guerrillas in 1949. He was among the few fortunates to have his death sentence commuted to one of life imprisonment. Busquets made a number of attempts to escape, the final one,...

In his stimulating study, Jesus Cruz examines middle-class lifestyles -- generally known as bourgeois culture -- in nineteenth-century Spain. Cruz argues that the middle class ultimately contributed to Spain's democratic stability and economic prosperity in the last decades of the twentieth century. Interdisciplinary...

'Of all literary fakes this is surely the most impudent, ingenious, and successful. The Comtesse D'Aulnoy was never in Spain (but) she was a born traveller. Not without reason have the editors of The Broadway Travellers included her fiction in their library of fact. For, despite its falseness, it...

Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptation to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant women’s social and emotional connections to honor and duty...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Costa del Sol 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...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Gibraltar 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...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Mallorca 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...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Zaragoza 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...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Costa Blanca 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...

  Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Nerja 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...