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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... ( read more)
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Spain : Traveler's Literary Companion (03 Edition)
by Peter Bush
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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)
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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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Philip of Spain
by Henry Arthur Kamen
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This book, published four hundred years after Philip's death, is the first full-scale biography of the king. Placing him within the social, cultural, religious and regional context of his times, it presents a startling new picture of his character and... ( read more)
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Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy (Yale Historical Publications)
by Paul C Allen
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This intriguing book argues that the sixteenth-century treaties King Philip III forged with Spain's most powerful enemies were not intended to ensure a permanent peace. Instead, the author shows, Philip's plan was to lull his foes, thereby enabling Spain... ( read more)
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Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History #2: Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965
by James Simpson
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A detailed analysis of Spanish agricultural history, explaining why it changed so slowly.... ( read more)
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Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
by J H Elliott
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Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott's classic chronicle has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced, and accessible account of the dramatic rise and fall of imperial Spain. Now with a new preface by the author, this brilliant study... ( read more)
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Barcelona the Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions)
by Robert Hughes
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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... ( read more)
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Gentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries: Political Change and Cultural Persistence Among the Spanish Dominant Groups, 1750-1850
by Jesus Cruz
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The crisis of the Spanish old regime traditionally has been interpreted as a result of a bourgeois revolution. Historians have argued that the ascendant class was formed by a group of new landowners, merchants, and bureaucrats who dismantled the old... ( read more)
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Pagan Spain
by Richard Wright
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A masterful chronicler of the African American experience, Richard Wright (1908-1960) was one of the most controversial and insightful writers America has produced. In 1957 the publication of Pagan Spain, marked a profound change in his literary and... ( read more)
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Person and God in a Spanish Valley
by William A Christian
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'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... ( read more)
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
by Mark Kurlansky
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From the author of "Cod" comes the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Kurlansky's passion for the Basque people and his exuberant eye for detail shine through this fascinating book which blends human stories with economic, literary... ( read more)
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Concise History of Portugal 2ND Edition
by David Birmingham
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In recent years, Portugal has experienced great social and economic change. This concise, illustrated history of the country offers an introduction to its people and culture, to its role as an imperial power in America and Africa, and to its search for... ( read more)
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Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy
by Paul Preston
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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)
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Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida: The Saga of Cesar Rincon
by Allen Josephs
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A renowned Hemingway scholar paints an accurate and intimate portrait of an esteemed matador's life in and around the world's most prestigious bullrings to demonstrate how and why this controversial ritual remains a sacred and integral part of Hispanic... ( read more)
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The Duke of Alba
by Henry Arthur Kamen
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An engrossing biography that attempts to fathom the motivations of an infamous sixteenth-century Spanish general. Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507-82), is known to history as "the butcher of Flanders." The general who carried out... ( read more)
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Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages
by A H De Ol Marques
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This book is currently available only from Ingram Lightning Source.... ( 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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In the tradition of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Edward Lewine presents an inspired account of bullfighting culture in modern-day Spain. Lewine brilliantly captures the romance and machismo associated with the art of bullfighting, as well as the... ( read more)
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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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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture (Council on Foreign Relations Book Seri)
by Jerrilynn D Dodds
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This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their contacts with one another transformed them all. It chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian... ( read more)
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