Synopses & Reviews
This accessible introduction to the history and civilization of Spain is an excellent vehicle for introducing intermediate or advanced students to Spanish civilization and culture. The updated edition retains the solid cultural and historical coverage from previous editions, while adding new information about modern-day political organization and culture, greater emphasis on the regional divisions of Spain, and more coverage of women in Spanish history and society.
About the Author
Francisco Ugarte Cristóbal (1910-1969) immigrated to the United States from Madrid in 1946. Before arriving in the United States, he was in charge of the U.S. embassy in Spain during the Spanish Civil War when the continuation of diplomatic relations between Spain and the U.S. was uncertain. He began his teaching career as an instructor of Spanish at Dartmouth College in 1947, rose through the ranks at Dartmouth, and was ultimately promoted to full professor. He wrote several widely used textbooks for students of Spanish language, literature, and civilization, among which are Beginning Spanish, Gramática española de repaso, Panorama de la civilización española, and the first edition of this book, España y su civilización (1952). Michael Ugarte is a professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of numerous studies on the modern literature of Spain, including a book on the novels of Juan Gotisolo, Trilogy of Treason. As a Guggenheim fellow, he completed a book on Spanish Civil War exile literature, Shifting Ground, and, more recently, Madrid 1900. His father, Francisco Ugarte, original author of España y su civilización, found a new home in New Hampshire after the turmoil and hardship resulting from the Spanish Civil War.Kathleen McNerney is an ecclectic scholar whose works include studies of writers from various times and places. She is the author of books on the fifteenth-century poet Ausias March and the novelist Joanot Martorell as well as works on contemporary Catalan women writers. She has also written about Spanish, French, and Latin American authors - both classic and current. McNerney is from New Mexico and teaches literature, humanities, and women's studies at West Virginia University. In 1990, she was awarded the Catalonia Prize for diffusion of Catalan culture, and in 1995 she was designated Benedum Distinguished Scholar by her institution.
Table of Contents
Introducción • España y las Españas: Diversidad geográfica y cultural
Unidad I • La prehistoria hasta la Edad Media
Capítulo 1 • España desde sus orígenes hasta la Reconquista
Capítulo 2 • La literatura española desde su nacimiento hasta el Siglo de Oro
Capítulo 3 • El arte prehistórico, la arquitectura y la escultura
Unidad II • El Siglo de Oro
Capítulo 4 • La España imperial de los siglos XVI y XVII
Capítulo 5 • La literatura del Siglo de Oro
Capítulo 6 • Miguel de Cervantes
Capítulo 7 • Artistas y músicos del Siglo de Oro
Unidad III • Siglos de luces y reformas: XVIII y XIX
Capítulo 8 • La España de los Borbones: Siglos XVIII y XIX
Capítulo 9 • La literatura española de los siglos XVIII y XIX
Capítulo 10 • Pintura y música de los siglos XVIII y XIX
Unidad IV • Siglo XX
Capítulo 11 • Desde Alfonso XIII hasta Francisco Francov Capítulo 12 • La literatura del siglo XX
Capítulo 13 • Arte y música del siglo XX
Unidad V • Presente y futuro
Capítulo 14 • Del franquismo a la democracia
Capítulo 15 • La política actual
Capítulo 16 • La cultura del pasado a la actualidad
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