Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
Endgame for ETA
Elusive Peace in the Basque Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ETA...
Toledo Cathedral
Building Histories in Medieval Castile
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth...
Crusade of the Left
The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
One Man's War in Spain
Trickery, Treachery and Thievery
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The collected memoirs and documents in this book, penned or preserved by the author with such belief and ideological conviction over so very many years of effort, can be described as a masterwork. Without euphemism or any other sort of circumlocution, they bluntly set out facts that will come as a...
by Sam Willis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?
How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat?
And why were so many ships lost at sea?
In 1585 Spain was the most POWERFUL Empire in the known world.
As...
Las dos Españas
Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century. The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues...
Death and Money in The Afternoon
A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation...
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain
Saravia, Villalon and the Religious Origins of Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the Instrución de mercaderes of Saravia de la Calle (1544). It does this in the context of the two principal questions that economic...
The Spanish Armada
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war...
Guerrilleros and Neighbours in Arms
Identities and Cultures of Anti-fascist Resistance in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Spanish Civil War, fought between 1936 and 1939, was the first battle against fascism in Europe. Five months after the victory of dictator Francisco Franco in Spain the conflict moved to Europe with the outbreak of the Second World War. Fascism and anti-fascism again faced each other on the battlefield....
Spain's Martyred Cities
From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Spain's Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the Spanish Civil War between the Battle of Madrid in November 1936 and the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of the iconic events of the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions of the conflict were decisively shaped....
Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War
History, Fiction, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography,...
Eve's Enlightenment
Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists,...