Author: Javier Cercas
In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Span ... |
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Author: Bernal Diaz
Men of iron mounted on strange beasts out to conquer an Empire There can be few more substantial and all embracing accounts of the Conquistadors than that of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Whilst all first-hand accounts a ... |
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Wellington's Lightning Strike into Spain
Author: Rene Chartrand
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Altho ... |
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Representations of the Asturian Revolution (1934-1938)
Author: Sarah Sanchez
This study examines a varied corpus of documentary and literary texts produced during the miners revolution of October 1934 in Asturias. It demonstrates how a set of writers, whether authors by profession, politicians, i ... |
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Author: J. M. Martinez & Russell King
This volume starts by placing Spain within the new political and economic context of Europe and then traces Spain's own political evolution from dictatorship to democracy and the autonomous regions. Subsequent chapters d ... |
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Author: Justo Perez de Urbel
A narative of Moslem rule in the days of St. Eulogius, one of the martyrs of Cordova. |
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Reconstructing the Nation
Author: Andrew Dowling
This book examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist mobilisation. With Franco's an ... |
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Author: Jim Clem & Eleanor Clem
The day to day account of two modern day pilgrims, Jim and Eleanor Clem, as they hike the Camino de Santiago. With over 160 photos, and a practical description of life on the trail, Buen Camino is a must read for anyone ... |
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The Dead Man's Finery and the Captain's Daughter
Author: Laura Lonsdale
Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitan/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farces written by Ramon del Valle-Inclan for the theatre. Translated here for the first ti ... |
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Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War
Author: Harry Fisher
"Powerful."-The Nation. "A simple account, concentrating mainly on the daily hardships and danger faced by individual Brigaders, and the banter and grumbling which were necessary survival tactics in desperate military si ... |
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Author: J. H. Elliott
From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a histor ... |
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Author: Rafael A Permuy Lopez
At the start of the Spanish Civil War, most young fighter pilot officers joined the rebels, while the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals remained loyal to the go ... |
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Author: Felix Lope De Vega y Carpio
Un ensayo sobre como hacer teatro en el siglo XVII, epoca en que la comedia no se concebia como en la actualidad sino que era la definicion por excelencia del arte dramatico. Util para entender que distingue al teatro cl ... |
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The Brainwashing of Francisco Franco
Author: Herbert R. Southworth
Written by a celebrated historian of the Spanish Civil War, Herbert R Southworth, this book provides an account of the origins of the war and the nature and importance of conspiracy for the extreme right. Based on extens ... |
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Author: J. H. Elliott
The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expul ... |
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Author: Carmen Pereira-Muro
Developed for Spanish students at the fifth-semester level or higher, this reader can be used as the main text in a civilization, culture, or reading course. A departure from traditional texts, which present Spanish civi ... |
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A History of the Spanish Bullfight
Author: Adrian Shubert
Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment ... |
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Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Author: Stephen Haliczer
The Counter-Reformation saw an upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm without parallel since medieval times. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imit ... |
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Repression in Madrid After the Spanish Civil War
Author: Julius Ruiz
Madrid became one of the key symbols of Republican resistance to General Franco during the Spanish Civil War following the Nationalists' failure to take the city in the winter of 1936-7. Yet despite the defiant cries of ... |
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The Franco Dictatorship, 1959-1975
Author: Nigel Townson
Spain Transformed addresses a major gap in the historiography of modern Spain: the late Franco dictatorship. Although Spain took the leap from an agricultural to an industrial economy and underwent a social and cultural ... |
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