Spain

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336431Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 397Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

2017 saw Catalonia come under the world's spotlight as it again fought for independence and the preservation and protection of its unique Catalan culture. Answering the questions and complications behind the fight for Catalonian Independence, this book...

From bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne draws on his half-century of experience to offer a balanced, broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the...

This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. It is...

I Saw Democracy Murdered is the memoir of Sam Russell (1915-2010), a communist journalist and a British volunteer with the anti-fascist Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.The book covers his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, his time as a...

Spain's top city for tourism, Madrid attracts more than six million visitors a year. Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart relate the story of a city and its people through the centuries, while their carefully curated listings give a nod to well-known...

"A novel par excellence that is destined to become a classic' of almost byzantine splendour . . . At its best worthy of comparison with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" Catherine Taylor, Irish Times"Afonso Cruz is one of the strongest voices in contemporary...

Revolutionary Marxism in Spain 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky's political thought upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the 'general line' laid down by Moscow. It explores the political ideas of leading Partido Obrero de Unificacion...

Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E...

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 questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882260300Author Ramon Sender BarayonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Calm Unity PressPublisher Calm Unity PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,...

The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most...

What is left of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for...

Every school and public library should update its resources on Spain with this lively and succinct narrative of Spain's long and rich historical experience. Emphasizing people rather than abstract developments, this narrative makes Spanish history...

Spain's transition from the Franco dictatorship to a democratic state has been widely regarded as exemplary. However, this powerfully written book reveals that as Spain's first post-transition government attempted to destroy the Basque separatist group...

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is...

This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Nasrids, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671511043Author Hugh ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1150g

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition.About the AuthorPaul Preston is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. His many books on Spain include Franco: A Biography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914225444Author Liam CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Orla Kelly PublishingPublisher Orla Kelly Publishing

The history of modern Spain is dominated by the figure of Francisco Franco, who presided over one of the longest authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Between 1936 and the end of the regime in 1975, Franco's Spain passed through several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055007Author Miguel Leon-PortillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939, Pelai Pag s i Blanch analyses the political and military evolution of the events in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War: the street battles that defeated the military rebellion; the social revolution that...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.Book InformationISBN 9780886290498Author Victor HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Carleton University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418205002Author Pedro CorralFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm * 18mm

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Prospero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. These celebrations allow us to interrogate the shifting uses of performance in the empire's center and...

A nationalist vision, strongly rooted in Spanish Catholicism and military culture, was one of the most powerful ideological tools of the Franco regime until its demise in 1975. Although nationalist movements in Spain's Basque and Catalan provinces have...

In this scholarly work, Zirakzadeh argues that there is a calculated reasoning behind ETA's political violence that is often overlooked by researchers. His book is a comprehensive account of the Basque region's grassroots politics.About the AuthorCyrus...

For two decades after the civil war the Franco regime applied systematic historical propaganda and imposed relentless repression of history professionals. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, the balance shifted from all-pervading propaganda to structural...

Over eight-hundred letters were written between the authors newly-engaged parents during the time that her father was on the Republican war front fighting against Francos forces, and her mother awaiting the end of the war. Her father, Professor Juan Luis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802885142Author Asante U ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing...

Despite a common heritage dating back centuries and mutual national interests, such as their joint fear of Soviet influence across the Mediterranean, it took 38 years after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) and a decade after Franco's death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441436558Author Carlos CanalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *...

This book is a new short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). Traditionally, this has been seen as a time that epitomised the worst features of 'old Spain': a backward country, poor and chronically unequal,...

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150,000 Spaniards met their deaths. Others perished in...

'Today with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the Nationalist [nacionales] troops have achieved their final military objectives. The war is over.' With these two sentences, on 1 April 1939, General Franco announced that his writ ran across the whole of...

"It was bright moonlight -- good bombing light -- and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over. They usually come swooping down with guns firing at cars, especially ambulances. Finally we arrived at a town among the...

Portugal's European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former good...

Tartan Angels sheds light on the work of the Scottish Ambulance Unit (SAU) and the crucial part it played in British medical and humanitarian aid to Spain. In the eighty-five years since the outbreak of the civil war an immense historiography has...