Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
The Portugal Story
Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.
“Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings...
Philip of Spain, King of England
The Forgotten Sovereign
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Spanish armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. however the same Spanish monarch who sent the armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor.
This important book sheds new light on Philip ii...
The Autobiographical Trilogy
Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A young man’s journey—from the international bestselling account of his idyllic childhood in rural England to “a poetic memoir” of the Spanish Civil War (The Washington Post).
In his acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, “one of the great writers of the twentieth century” presents...
by Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice...
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Fringe Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...
The Ambulance Man And The Spanish Civil War
Forgotten Stories From Spain, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
The True Story of the Canadian Doctor and Ambulance driver that came to help a city in exodus.
Try to imagine that the city of Malaga is to be evacuated overnight. 150.000 people will have to walk 200km along the coastal road in search of a safe refuge whilst being pursued by Italian tanks, bombed...
A King Travels
Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras,...
Travels with My Donkey
One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
"'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous. . . .Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a cardboard tail to one's throat after the...
The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought...
by RUBEN A.
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Trigésimo segundo rei de Portugal, D. Pedro V (1837-1861) apenas viveu 24 anos e reinou seis. Ainda assim, marcou de forma decisiva a história do Portugal contemporâneo. Foi durante o seu reinado que se iniciou a Regeneração e Portugal entrou na modernidade - de que a inauguração do telégrafo...
by ALEXANDRE BORGES
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Todos conhecemos os pontos nevrálgicos da História de Portugal, um dos mais antigos estados-nação do mundo, casa paterna de um dos idiomas mais falados no planeta e paciente assaltado por recorrentes crises de auto- estima. Mas saberemos das zonas cinzentas? Das pequenas histórias? Dos episódios...
A máscara vermelha
Romance Histórico
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 30, 2012
No dia 7 de junho de 1640 rebenta em Barcelona a «Revolta da Catalunha». O rei Filipe IV de Castela foca a sua atenção e os seus esforços naquela província do leste da península, fragilizando a defesa dos restantes domínios.
É neste...
by John Lawrence Tone
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization...
by Esteban Tarrio
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Jerez de la Frontera in Costa de la Luz, in Spain.
Jerez de la Frontera is one of the major cities in Andalusia and is one of the main economic centers in the province of Cádiz.
Few places in Spain can be said to enjoy the international...