Seville, Granada, and Cordoba: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by Elizabeth Nash


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Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos... (read more)

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Spain: A History
by Raymond Carr


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Sir Raymond Carr is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Spain. In Spain: A History, he and eight other leading scholars--including Sebastian Balfour and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto--provide an authoritative overview of a country that... (read more)

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Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain
by Edward Lewine


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'A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There\'s nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not... (read more)

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Gerda Taro
by Gerda Taro


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In 1934, after reading John Dos Passos' 1919, Gerda Taro left her home in Stuttgart for Paris. There she met the now legendary photographer Robert Capa, with whom she traveled to Spain at the start of the Civil War. As his lover and photographic partner--... (read more)

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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution
by Abel Paz


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"Durruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz's magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism."-Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums AK Press has commissioned an... (read more)

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Dreamer of the Calle De San Salvador
by Roger Osborne


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From the author of The Deprat Affair, history with a difference, presenting the dreams of a woman who lived at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Spell-binding, poetic and apocalyptic, the dreams of Lucrecia de Léon lay in the archives of the... (read more)

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Voices of the Old Sea
by Norman Lewis


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After WW II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava.... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism and the Urban Spectacle
by Deborah L Parsons


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Despite its international significance, Madrid has been almost entirely ignored by urban, literary and cultural studies published in English. A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism and the Urban Spectacle corrects that oversight by presenting an urban... (read more)

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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World
by Russell Martin


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In Picasso's War, Russell Martin weaves politics, history, art, and science into a stirring narrative of the monumental canvas that was to become the most important artwork of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso, enraged by Hitler's bombing of Guernica in... (read more)

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Franco
by Michael Streeter


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Francisco Franco (1892-1975) grew up in the quiet backwater of El Ferrol in north-west Spain and went on to become one of the most controversial political figures of the twentieth century. His ruthless pursuit of victory in the bloody Spanish Civil War... (read more)

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