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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal Publisher Comments This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of "al-Andalus, " the kingdom in medieval Spain where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 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 $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Moment of War (91 Edition) 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: $7.00 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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Empire : How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 (03 Edition) by Henry Kamen Publisher Comments From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spain by John A Crow Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.50 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: $14.95 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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Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War by Cecil D Eby Publisher Comments In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain--the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes Publisher Comments As the Los Angeles Times said: "Drawing expertly on five centuries of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas, Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant, and enduring civilization [in the New World] that began in Spain." Fuentes's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz Publisher Comments "Durruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz's magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism.”—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums AK Press has... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure by Mary Soderstrom Publisher Comments From early modern history to contemporary global influences, this resource captures the legacy of Portugal and its people. From adventurous sailors in search of spices more than 600 years ago and the pioneering city plans that rebuilt Lisbonand the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson Synopsis Examines the factors which contributed to the failure of the Second Republic and the eruption of the Spanish Civil War.... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Civil War by Antony Beevor Synopsis This is the story of the Spanish Civil War, one of the most bitter armed struggles of the 20th century, by the author of 'Stalingrad'.... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II by Stanley G Payne Publisher Comments Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Barcelona by Manuel Vazquez Montalban Publisher Comments Dieser Bildband lädt Sie ein zu einem Rundgang durch die am Mittelmeer gelegene und durch den Berg Tibidabo begrenzte spanische Stadt Barcelona. Wunderschöne Fotos entführen Sie an die Ramblas, an den Hafen, in die Parks, an sonnige Pl... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea Publisher Comments Originally published in the late 1940s, and never before available in paperback in the United States, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N Carroll Publisher Comments A history of the 2,800 Americans who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, following their careers after their return to the US.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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