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Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution
The Surge of Support for Independence in Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic, and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement...
Power Struggles
Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits...
by Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian...
by Captain James MacCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The situation for the Duke of Wellington and his British and Portuguese troops in 1812 was somewhat perilous. Although they had chased Masséna and his French Legions from Spain, overwhelming numbers of enemy troops were still in Spain despite being scattered through the provinces. For Wellington...
by Fernando Gómez Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
With the death in September 2012 of Santiago Carrillo, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (1960-1982), we can expect a few biographies of the ‘father of Eurocommunism’ over the coming years. So, as a matter of record, we are republishing an extensive review by ‘Frente...
Walking and Trekking in the Sierra Nevada
38 walks, scrambles and multi-day traverses
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This guidebook presents 33 graded walks and 5 high mountain scrambles in the striking Sierra Nevada, the highest mountain range in mainland Spain and in western Europe outside the Alps. Easily accessible from Granada and Málaga, it is a world of soaring, snow-clad peaks and deep valleys, far removed...
Who Should Rule?
Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown of the Spanish empire. Mónica Ricketts examines the rise of men of letters and military officers in two central areas of the Spanish...
Between Exaltation and Infamy
Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by...
by Mary-Ann Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The provinces of Valencia & Murcia have it all: gorgeous beaches, stylish cities and pretty, low-key towns. From the sun-drenched beaches of the Costa Blanca to Murcia’s delightful, flower-filled squares, the region is a great base from which to enjoy the Mediterranean coastline as well as indulge...
Barcelona Travel Guide 2018
Discover Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.
The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable to feel like you've been won over by Antoni Gaudi's imagination by visiting places like La Pedrera, Casa Batlló, La Sagrada...
Barcelona Travel Guide 2018
[Design Edition] Discover Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.
The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable to feel like you've been won over by Antoni Gaudi's imagination by visiting places like La Pedrera, Casa Batlló, La Sagrada...
by Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a...
Son of the Alhambra
Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1504-1575
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic career...
Medina Mayrit
The Origins of Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ana Ruiz visits the monuments, architecture and archeological remains of early Madrid, tracing its evolution up until the Christian conquest in the late 11th century. This history gives special emphasis to Madrids Moorish origins, while savoring the piquant blend of Celtiberian, Roman, and Visigoth...