Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
by Paul Ames, Célia Pedroso
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
You’ll never fall into tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. Doing so is like having a trusted friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. That’s because our guidebooks, unlike much of the competition, are written by resident experts—like Celia Pedroso and Paul...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Gain a better understanding of the ongoing crisis in Spain over the separatist movement for Catalonia. A controversial independence referendum in October 2017 plunged the nation into turmoil as the Catalan region threatens to tear the country apart. Several scholarly studies are included in this compendium...
History of the War in the Peninsula, under Napoleon - Vol. I
to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon, he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent a...
The Camino Portugues
From Lisbon and Porto to Santiago - Central, Coastal and Spiritual caminos
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A guidebook to walking the Camino Portugués (Portuguese Way), 620km from Lisbon in Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The book gives stage-by-stage directions for the Central Camino, starting from Lisbon, Porto or Tui, the Coastal Camino between Porto and Redondela, and the Spiritual Variant...
by Ruth MacKay
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 1, 2013
No dia 4 de agosto de 1578, em uma tentativa mal concebida de reconquistar Marrocos das mãos dos mouros infiéis, D. Sebastião de Portugal aniquilou suas tropas e perdeu a vida na batalha de Alcácer-Quibir. Iniciou-se, então, uma crise sucessória no país, culminando na perda de sua soberania...
by Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm G.C.B
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Field-Marshal Gomm’s letters and journals provide a first-rate account of the numerous actions, battles and events that he was involved in during the Napoleonic wars. A seasoned officer from a military family, he was an acute observer of all that went on around him, and the notes and letters he...
Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition,...
Napoleon: a History of the Art of War Vol. III
from the Beginning of the French Revolution to the End of the 18th Century [Ill. Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints
Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he...
by Tirso de Molina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Inspirada en los conflictos entre cristianos y musulmanes, el Manuscrito de Las Quinas de Portugal tiene una nota explicativa, con minuciosidad erudita, de todas las fuentes históricas utilizadas para la redacción de la comedia. Esta referencia directa a crónicas, no romances, esta sujeción a...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
With its dramatic coastline, sun-kissed beaches and sublime weather, Portugal is every bit as alluring as its Spanish neighbour - and gaining more and more in popularity. Be inspired to visit with our new Insight Guide Portugal, a comprehensive full-colour guide to this Iberian gem.
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A History of Early Al-Andalus
The Akhbar Majmu'a
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The Akhbār majmū‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahmān III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early...
by Rick Steves
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Stroll Lisbon's cobbled lanes, cruise the Douro River, and soak up the sun on Algarve beaches: experience Portugal with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Portugal you'll find:
Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Portugal
Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out...
by Charles Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
THE Iberian Peninsula has not always had the same form which it now has, or the same plants, animals, or climate which are found there today. For example, it is said that Spain was once united by land with Africa, and also by way of Sicily, which had not yet become an island, with southern Italy,...