Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by Comte Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné de Las Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Before the shattering of the Napoleonic empire in 1815, Count Las Cases had served loyally for many years in the council of state. However, his most important service was to come after he followed his Emperor into exile on St. Helena. During his time with Napoleon on the “Rock in the Atlantic”,...
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Learn Spanish with confidence, pick up vocabulary and practice new words you won't forget by reading Vocabulary Builder: English/Spanish - The First Party - Enhanced EditionEdición ampliada para estudiantes de Ingles.No more boring drills that make you yawn and funny outdated gibberish...
Catalonia's Advocates
Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political...
The Portuguese immigrant in Curaçao
immigration, participation and integration in 20th century
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 27, 2012
The rapid industrialization of Curacao, based on oil refining, resulted in an urgent need for labor which the small community could not provide sufficiently. The Portuguese, mostly from Madeira, were among the immigrant laborers who came by the thousands from the 1920s until the 1950s. A small group...
by Teresa Solana
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
1.The second novel in the series featuring twin private detectives Eduard and Borja Martinez, follow-on to the critical success of “A Not So Perfect Crime”.
Best seller in Catalan, Spanish and most recently German.
Barcelona setting should get attention. Plenty of atmosphere...
This Happened in My Presence
Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous.
The introduction explains the medieval origins of Deza's Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations and the changing policies toward religious minorities under the Catholic...
by Jaume Sobrequés i Callicó
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This is an ideal introduction to the whole history of Catalonia from the remotest times until the present. It is a rigorous and accessible vision aimed at everyone, which can be read quickly and easily. The book brings the Catalan past to all Catalans and to foreigners who, when they visit Catalonia,...
Vertical Empire
The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism:...
O descobrimento do Brasil
Romance Histórico
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Ao voltarem de uma noite de diversão, dois amigos deparam-se com um moribundo, ao tentarem socorrê-lo acabam por se verem acusados da morte do infeliz.
São julgados e condenados à pena de morte. Mas a pena é-lhes comutada para degredo perpétuo, e vão...
by ALEXANDRA MARQUES
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Toda a verdade sobre o maior tabu da presença portuguesa em África. Que segredos poderão ser revelados sobre a descolonização de Angola? O que terá sido discutido na ilha do Sal (em Setembro de 1974) entre Spínola e Mobutu sobre as condições de transferência do Poder para a FNLA? Que facilidades...
The Wreck of Catalonia
Civil War in the Fifteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
This fascinating account examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from dominance within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. It begins by studying the tensions destabilising...
A Distant Heartbeat
A War, a Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
On May 20, 1938, a young man from the Bronx informs his parents that he is leaving for the Catskills to begin his new job as a waiter. Instead, he sails for Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, the opening round in the fight against Hitler and Mussolini. The man, Dave...
by Gabriela Ybarra
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
•Longlisted for 2018 Man Booker International Prize
•Autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.
•A fragmented narrative told in a compulsively readable style.
by Frédéric Masson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Much has been written about the life of Napoleon, whose actions dominated the beginning of the Nineteenth century; his campaigns have been charted in great detail as have his political manoeuvres; however, his life during his few quiet hours remained less well known - until the renowned Frédéric...