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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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The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War by Norman Lewis Publisher Comments While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy years later, in prose that is witty, understated, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Spain 1469-1716 by J H Elliott Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee Synopsis In this gripping, poignant memoir--a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom--Laurie Lee returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age, portraying the death of a young man's idealism. "For anyone who wants to understand what war is actually like... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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, 1808-1975 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) by Raymond Carr Publisher Comments The first edition of this book was published in 1966. It became a standard work as a survey of economic, social, and political origins of modern Spain leading up to the apparent defeat of the liberal tradition with General Franco's victory in the Civil... (read more) List Price $113.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Philip of Spain by Henry Arthur Kamen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 by Nicholas Shrady Publisher Comments A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings by Antonio Lobo Antunes and Margaret Jull Costas Staff Pick Antunes crafts some of the world's most vivid and lively prose. The brief selections in The Fat Man and Infinity demonstrate that he is as masterful at creating brief vignettes as he is epic novels. As two-thirds of this book is comprised of... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War by Brian D Bunk Publisher Comments The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Spain, 1469-1716 by J H Elliott Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown by Benton Patterson Publisher Comments Philip II of Spain, the most powerful monarch in sixteenth-century Europe and a ferocious empire-builder, was matched against the dauntless queen of England, Elizabeth I, determined to defend her country and thwart Philip's ambitions. Philip had... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $2.50 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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The Fall of the Spanish Inquisition by Daniel Rosenfeld Publisher Comments A group of young men and women band together to fight the monstrous behavior of the Catholic Church in 15th century Spain. They sabotage the operations of the church, and with the help of Queen Isabella bring down the Inquisition, and stop the mass... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle for Spain : Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (2ND 06 Edition) by Antony Beevor Publisher Comments A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945 To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 by Stanley G Payne Publisher Comments From bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne draws on his half-century of experience to offer a balanced, broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn D Dodds Publisher Comments Named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, this lavishly illustrated work explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their contacts with one another transformed them all. It... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal Publisher Comments Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedomSmyrna, Alexandria, and Beirutcities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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