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The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain
A Bibliography of Criticism and Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain.
Representing ten years of searches and compilation by its specialist authors, this volume draws...
Colonial al-Andalus
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric...
Churchill and Spain
The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain.
Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the...
by Joseph Krauskopf
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
With the decline of Mohammedan power, and the expulsion of the Moors by the Spaniards, the Jews were again reduced to a pitiable state. Spain arose to enormous power, but that, too, has waned, and the population of 30,000,000 people has dwindled to about half that number. The manufactures, the commerce...
Spanish Serendipity
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Shed the consumer of tourism, and discover the real person making her way through Spain. The boringly stage-managed holiday environment is not for her. Instead, she experiences Spain behind the scenesa Spain peopled with generous eccentricities and fiesta-loving citizens of Europe. On her travelsnot...
The Lisbon Route
Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation....
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That...
by Lieutenant John Brumwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
There is something particularly affecting when reading the posthumously published letters of a soldier who has fallen in battle. The hope of a future rings out clear from John Brumwell’s letters back to his family in the north of England whilst he toils in the Duke of Wellington’s army in Spain...
by Thomas Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
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...
Journal Of An Officer In The Commissariat Department Of The Army
Comprising A Narrative Of The Campaigns Under The Duke Of Wellington, In Portugal, Spain, France, And The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“A reporter's eye on great historical events
“Readers may be of the initial opinion that the view of an officer of the Commissariat Department would be necessarily less dynamic than that of a regimental officer. In fact, Daniel's position as a non-combatant has proved to be the exact opposite...
Adventures of a young rifleman in the French and English armies,
during the war in Spain and Portugal, from 1806 to 1816. Written by himself
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
During the Napoleonic Wars, few had such an unenviable job as the “poor bloody infantry”; fodder for cannon, unless tightly packed in ranks prey to cavalry, their only recourse was discipline and a highly inaccurate musket. As tactics evolved, the infantry would look for ways to maximize their...
Rails Across Europe
Eastern and Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The two volumes covering Rails Across Europe are divided into one covering the North and West of the continent, the other dealing with the South and East.
The photos were taken by David Cable, well-regarded author of several photographic albums of trains throughout the world, supplemented by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The...
by William Hamilton Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their accounts...