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On Bullfighting
by Kennedy Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate...
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Spain the Root & the Flower 3RD Edition
by John A Crow Publisher Comments John A. Crow updates and expands his classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people. The scope of this richly textured book is remarkable and includes chapters on Roman Spain, the Jews in Spain, the Moors, life in medieval towns, the...
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The New Spaniards (Penguin Politics and Current Affairs)
by John Hooper Synopsis Describes the Spain that has emerged since the death of Franco, a country of immense industrial and cultural creativity, of police trade unions and wife-swapping bars, a federal monarchy with a tax-paying king, a welfare state in which three-quarters of...
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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World
by Russell Martin Publisher Comments On April 26, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe in the midst of a bloody civil war on behalf of Francisco Franco's rebel forces. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated....
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Person and God in a Spanish Valley
by William A Christian Synopsis 'William Christian has given us an extremely sensitive study of man, religion and society in a valley in Northern Spain...The reader somehow experiences the passing of the generations and the centuries, the succession of priests with different views...
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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...
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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World
by Russell Martin Publisher Comments 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...
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Dreamer of the Calle De San Salvador
by Roger Osborne Publisher Comments 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...
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A time of triumph and of sorrow :Spanish politics during the reign of Alfonso XII, 1874-1885
by Earl Beck Publisher Comments This first study in English of the reign of Alfonso XII and the creation of a quasi-parliamentary monarchy revises the previously held estimate of the leadership of the frail young king, removing him from the shadow of his minister, the pragmatic...
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The agony of modernization :labor and industrialization in Spain
by Benjamin Martin Book News Annotation Martin examines Spain's socioeconomic foundation and the formation of the modern labor force, as well as early efforts to institute social reforms. He analyzes the impact that a painfully slow process of industrialization and economically precarious...
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The social origins of democratic collapse :the first Portuguese republic in the global economy
by Kathlee Schwartzman Book News Annotation Score another point for the disciples of Immanual Wallerstein and world-system analysis. Schwartzman (sociology, U. of Arizona) examines the collapse of the First Portuguese Republic in 1926, reframing the discussion of national politics within the...
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Vizcaya on the eve of Carlism :politics and society, 1800-1833
by Renato Barahon Publisher Comments Barahona examines the class conflicts and social structures that existed in the Spanish Basque province of Vizcaya to gain a better understanding of the historical problems between the Vizcayans and the Carlists....
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Vigil in Benicarlo
by Josephine A Stewart Publisher Comments Azana, novelist, dramatist, and president of Spain during the Spanish civil war, wrote this dialogue -- a conversation among five travelers who have stopped for the night at a village inn -- to express a lifetime's thoughts about his country....
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Good faith and truthful ignorance :a case of transatlantic bigamy
by Alexandra Parm Cook Book News Annotation In his warm and eloquent manner, Dr. Bettelheim discusses how parents can learn to comprehend their children's behavior and their own. Alas, no index. Daily life in 16th-century Spain, as well as the mentality and experience of conquest and settlement...
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Escape Via Berlin: Eluding Franco in Hitler's Europe (Basque)
by Jose Antoni Aguirre Synopsis Jose Antonio de Aguirre was president of the Basque Republic during its brief and tragic history but was forced into exile when the Nationalists overran his fledgling country and the German invasion caught him between Franco and Hitler. More than a mere...
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Voyage of the Armada Spanish Story
by David Howarth Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-249) and index....
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Hispanic World Civilization & Empire Eur
by J H Elliott Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index....
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Conquistadors in North American History
by Paul Horgan
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King Charles III of Spain
by Charles Petrie
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