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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 $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stafford Poole Publisher Comments 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 Harry Fisher Publisher Comments The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carrie Douglass Publisher Comments 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.<P>... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard L Kagan Publisher Comments Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de Leon had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J H Elliott Publisher Comments In these essays the pre-eminent historian of early modern Spain and its world looks at the character of the Spanish Habsburg court; the ties between sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain, the rest of Europe, and the New World; and the decline of... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lu Ann Homza Publisher Comments In Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza rejects the traditional view of the Spanish Renaissance as a battle of strict opposites in favor of a more nuanced history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Albe Allard Book News Annotation The evocative text is by Laxalt, who qualifies for the task by being of Basque descent, by having lived in Basque country, and by the internationally acclaimed quality of his writing (The Basque Hotel, A Cup of tea in Pamplona). The poignant and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Alpert Publisher Comments Michael Alpert's study of the Spanish Civil War is dedicated to the international aspects of the conflict, and covers the whole era, setting the action in Spain against major events throughout the world of the 1930s. Since the first edition of this book... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Arthur Kamen Publisher Comments 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 Samuel G. (edt) Armistead Publisher Comments This volume presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of orally improvised poetry, focusing on the Basque practitioners... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Kamen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-576) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Reston Publisher Comments From historian James Reston, Jr., comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, a year when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward adventure and conquest changed the world forever. The Dogs of God... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Elizabet Perry Publisher Comments In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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