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Barcelona by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Spain: A History by Raymond Carr Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pagan Spain by Richard Wright Publisher Comments Richard Wright chronicles his trip to Spain in 1954, capturing the beauty and tragedy of the country under the rigid rule of Francisco Franco.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pagan Spain (P.S.) by Richard A Wright Publisher Comments A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas Publisher Comments In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy by Paul Preston Publisher Comments Preston explores the political and personal mysteries of the former Spanish monarch's life in a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail which is at once a history of modern Spain and an indispensable exegesis of how democracies come to be.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New Spaniards by John Hooper Publisher Comments A masterly portrait of contemporary Spain?fully revised, expanded, and updated Modern-day Spain is a country changing at bewildering speed. In less than half a century, a predominantly rural society has been transformed into a mainly urban one. A... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Recognitions: The Road from the Past by Mary Lee Settle Publisher Comments A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other. MARY LEE SETTLE, at the age of eighty-two, set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew from guidebooks, from friends, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation by Marsha Kinder Publisher Comments In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain’s national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Spain: A Handbook by Christopher Ross Publisher Comments Studying Spanish? Spending a year in Spain? Or maybe going to work there? Then you'll need this handbook of contemporary Spain and the Spanish language. Packed with essential information on politics, the economy, and institutions, it covers the basics... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s by D. J. Walker Publisher Comments In the late 1890s, a journalist wrote, "Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor." Yet, at a time when women were expected to sacrifice their sons and husbands willingly for the sake of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion) by Peter R Bush Publisher Comments Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories-many of which appear in English for the first time-transport the reader through Spain's many enchanting regions... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Spain, 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr Review "This short, analytical work draws from [Carr's] writings and synthesizes results from the greatly increased number of publications on modern Spain that have appeared recently....The result is an admirable, judicious, and gracefully written text... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain by Jimmy Burns Publisher Comments A true story of espionage with a plot worthy of John le Carré. With the declaration of war in 1939, dashing young publisher, Tom Burns, left his business for the Ministry of Information, the propaganda arm of the British secret services, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen Publisher Comments Published 400 years after Philip's death, this first full-scale biography places him within the social, cultural, religious, and regional context of his times, presenting a startling new picture of this Spanish monarch. 32 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Democracy in Spain: Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955-1975 by Joe Foweraker Publisher Comments The story of the unsung heroes whose struggles prepared the transition to democracy in Spain.... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Spaniards (Penguin Politics and Current Affairs) by John Hooper Publisher Comments A masterly portrait of contemporary Spainfully revised, expanded, and updated Modern-day Spain is a country changing at bewildering speed. In less than half a century, a predominantly rural society has been transformed into a mainly urban one. A... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Historical Essay on Modern Spain (Campus; 118) by Richard Herr About the Author Richard Herr is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) by Laura Desfor Edles Publisher Comments This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the transition to democracy of post-Franco Spain. Since General Franco's death in 1975, Spanish political life has seen an extraordinarily quiescent "period of consensus," unique in its own... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, with a Sketch of the Civilization Which They Achieved, and Imparted to Europe Volume 2 by Henry Coppee Publisher Comments An account of the arrival of the Arabs in Spain, and the civilization they created there. Includes an introduction to Islam, and the journey of the Islamic expansion until the Conquest, concentrating on the intellectual activities of Moorish Spain.... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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