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by Mark Kurlansky  
Publisher Comments The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their civilization existed well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and though theories abound, no one has ever been able to determine their... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antony Beevor Synopsis The Spanish Civil War is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Giles Tremlett Publisher Comments The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Gillespie Synopsis Democratic Spain is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Parker Book News Annotation **** Parker (history, Yale U.) published the first edition of this now classic work with Little, Brown in 1978--part of L,B's Library of World Biography. That edition won a place in BCL3. This is a reprint with a new preface and a (small) bibliography.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Olivia Re Constable Publisher Comments A comprehensive survey of Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carrie Douglass Synopsis The matador flourishes his cape, the bull charges, the crowd cheers: this is the image of Spain best known to the world. But while the bull has long been a symbol of Spanish culture, it carries more meaning than has previously been recognized. Carrie... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A L 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... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Arthur Kamen Synopsis 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 $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $28.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stafford Poole Synopsis Philip II is a fascinating figure in Spanish history, but it was his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law--who made his vast empire possible. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole traces the life of a key minister. Juan de Ovando... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Arthur Kamen Synopsis 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) List Price $32.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerda Taro Synopsis In 1934, after reading John Dos Passos' 1919, Gerda Taro left her home in Stuttgart for Paris. There she met the now legendary photographer Robert Capa, with whom she traveled to Spain at the start of the Civil War. As his lover and photographic partner--... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh Thomas Synopsis A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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