Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
With the UK’s Foreign Recruitment Act making enlistment in a foreign army illegal, the British authorities became increasingly rigorous in their attempts to enforce non-intervention and implement the law, so Brigaders were recruited discretely through the Communist Party network by local cadres...
by Stanley G. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s...
Portugal's Other Kingdom
The Algarve
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A land of long ago on the brink of tomorrow. That is the Algarve, the southernmost province of Portugal, a land that knew the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems—and yet retained its own distinctive personality. In the 1950s it first felt the impact of industrialization,...
The Romanization of Central Spain
Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD.
He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material experiences...
Spain Bleeds
The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Research into local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and of the International Brigades' Medical Service resulted in an informal trilogy of sorts. ¡Salud! British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 and Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances: British...
A Quaker Goes to Spain
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813–1816
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope...
Modern Spain and the Sephardim
Legitimizing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Modern Spain and the Sephardim: Legitimizing Identities addresses the legal, political, symbolic, and conceptual consequences of the development of a new framework of relations between the Spanish state and the descendants of the Jews expelled from the Iberian kingdoms in 1492 from its beginnings...
by Manuel Pinheiro Chagas
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Em 1880, Manuel Pinheiro Chagas resolveu publicar um livro onde a história de Portugal fosse exposta de uma forma que facilitasse a sua apreensão, mesmo pelo mais humilde dos seus contemporâneos. Inspirando-se em obras do mesmo tipo que foram publicadas em França alguns...
US–Spanish Relations after Franco, 1975–1989
The Will of the Weak
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
On September 26, 1953, the Eisenhower administration signed three executive agreements with General Franco’s regime, which allowed the United States to install military bases in Spain in exchange for economic and military aid. The deal clearly favored US Cold War interests, and critics soon denounced...
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe’s encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study...
Franco’s Prisoner
Anarchists in the struggle against the dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Miguel García García was born in Barcelona in 1908, the seventh of nine children. He became a newspaper-seller at the age of nine, and an apprentice printer at twelve; he was a lifelong member of the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist trade union in Spain. Miguel García García...
by Miguel Carvalho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Histórias e segredos da violência política no pós-25 de Abril.Quem foram as primeiras vítimas mortais da democracia? Por que razão foram assassinados Padre Max, Rosinda Teixeira e Joaquim Ferreira Torres? Quem protegia e que segredos escondia a rede bombista de extrema-direita? Como enfrentou o...
by José Gomes Ferreira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Em dez anos de crise bancária a classe política portuguesa começou por nacionalizar e garantir bancos falidos; mudou de posição prometendo obrigar os banqueiros e os investidores a pagar pelos seus erros. Mas na fase final, o Governo, a Presidência da República, o Parlamento e o Banco de Portugal...
by Alfredo de Amorim Pessoa
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2013
A «mais velha profissão do mundo» faz parte da história de todos os povos, civilizações e culturas do mundo. Também a forma como esta atividade foi vista nas diversas épocas e culturas foi diversa, mesmo dentro do mesmo território. Neste...