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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 country that...
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Seville, Granada, and Cordoba: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by Elizabeth Nash Publisher Comments 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...
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
by Giles Tremlett Publisher Comments “Part modern social history, part travelogue, Ghosts of Spain is held together by elegant first-person prose…an invaluable book…[that] has become something of a bible for those of us extranjeros who have chosen to live in Spain. A...
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Cities of Spain
by David Gilmour Synopsis A chronicle of the nation as seen through nine major cities. Mr. Gilmour captures their history, atmosphere, and culture in handsome prose....
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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
by John Hooper Synopsis 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...
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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
by John L Kessell Publisher Comments John L. Kessell's Spain in the Southwest is a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain's...
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Madrid: A Cultural Literary Companion (Cities of the Imagination)
by Elizabeth Nash Synopsis Madrid flaunts its distinctive Spanish identity as the most vibrant of Europe's capitals. The author explores its chaotic jumble in squares, parks, streets and monuments old and new. Maps and illustrations....
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Spain : Traveler's Literary Companion (03 Edition)
by Peter 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...
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Barcelona the Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions)
by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Robert Hughes has been going to Barcelona regularly since the 1960s and was married in its Gothic city hall last year. Although in his new book Hughes is compelling and engaging in describing Barcelona's remarkable culture and history, his first subject...
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Barcelona the Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions)
by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love...
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Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire
by Maria Deguzman Publisher Comments England and the Netherlands, Spain's imperial rivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, imagined Spain as cruel and degenerate barbarians of la leyenda negra (the Black Legend), in league with the powers of "blackest darkness" and driven by...
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Spain: The Root and the Flower an Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People
by John A Crow Synopsis This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and pertinent as when he first wrote it. Crow devoted a lifetime to Hispanic studies and here provides a...
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Catalonia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)
by Michael Eaude Publisher Comments Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is...
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Philip of Spain (97 Edition)
by Henry Kamen Synopsis Drawing on unpublished correspondence and other archival sources, this biography of Philip of Spain places him within the social, cultural, religious and regional context of his times. In doing so the author aims to reveal much about Philip the youth...
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History of Spain (04 Edition)
by Simon Barton Publisher Comments Simon Barton provides a highly readable and up-to-date analysis of the historical development of Spain from prehistory to modern times. Today, as Spain has become firmly integrated into the political and economic structures of the European Union, 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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Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
by Henry Arthur Francis Kamen Publisher Comments This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen, is a unique analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. Kamen discusses how perceptions of key aspects of...
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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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Voices of the Old Sea
by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments After WW II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava....
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