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Sacred Sites: The Camino
The Guide to Your Magical Journey, #6
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Sacred Sites: The Camino
The Guide to Your Magical Journey
The Camino de Santiago – the Way of Saint James – is an ancient pilgrimage path that stretches eight hundred kilometres westward across the north of Spain. Christians walk it to do penance, be absolved of their sins and feel closer...
Performing al-Andalus
Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage...
by John Horace Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early...
by Lt.-Colonel Charles Steevens
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Having survived a posting to the disease ridden West Indies, the young ensign Steevens returned to Europe for further service with the XXth Regiment of Foot of the British Army, known as the “Old and Bold”. After some desultory fighting in the campaign in Holland, during which he was wounded and...
Memoirs Of Marshal Bugeaud From His Private Correspondence And Original Documents, 1784-1849 Vol. II
Memoirs Of Marshal Bugeaud From His Private Correspondence And Original Documents, 1784-1849 Vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“Next after the greatest military personage of the century, Napoleon I., the most perfect is Marshal Bugeaud.”
Originally published following the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and soon after translated into English, these memoirs form a fascinating portrait of the famous “Père...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, ca. 1488/1490 Valladolid, ca. 1557/1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition. He is remembered as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans, first...
by Ignacio Iglesias
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Some myths are long-lived, perhaps because they are fed by relentless partisan propaganda. One such myth credits Negrín and the communists alone with a will to resist throughout the civil war. A whole swathe of literature has made it its business to portray them as the very symbols of uncompromising...
by Scott Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In this debut work, Scott Eastman tackles the complex issue of nationalism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish Atlantic empire. Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic challenges the idea that nationalism arose from the ashes of confessional society. Rather, the tenets...
Contested Treasure
Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy...
by Charles J. Esdaile
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a...
France and the Spanish Civil War
Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage,...
War Drama of the Eagles
Napoleon's Standard-Bearers On The Battlefield In Victory And Defeat From Austerlitz To Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
The eagle of Napoleon was a potent symbol of military might, men fought and died to possess the “cou-cou” that his regiments carried into battle. It represented the fidelity of a regiment to the cause of the French Empire, and more particularly the attachment of the brave warriors who fought beneath...
Napoleon As Gaoler
Personal Experiences And Adventures Of British Sailors And Soldiers During The Great Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The lot of a prisoner of war is well documented in more recent conflicts such as the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf conflicts, however the British prisoners of war during the Napoleonic period have received scant attention as whole. Edward Fraser, a noted author on the period set out...
The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia & On a Chinese Screen
Collection of autobiographical travel sketches and articles by the British Playwright, Novelist and Short Story writer, author of "The Painted Veil" and "Of Human Bondage"
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia & On a Chinese Screen" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short...