Author: Giles Tremlett
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: spain, past, silent, travels, ghosts
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0802716741
ISBN-13: 9780802716743
Part modern social history, part travelogue, Ghosts of Spain is held together by elegant first-person prose an invaluable book [that] has become something of a bible for those of us extranjeros who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.”Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review 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”th
Author: John Edwards
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: spain, history, catholic, monarchs
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-03-23
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0631221433
ISBN-13: 9780631221432
The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs is a comprehensive history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the first to be published in English since that of William Prescott in 1837. It provides full coverage of political, military, economic, social, cultural and religious life in Spain during this period. The book opens with an examination of the origins and upbringing of the two rulers before moving on to look at the difficulties surrounding Isabella’s accession in Castile, and the consolidation of the new regime. The origins and work of the new Spanish Inquisition are analysed, as
Author: John A. Crow
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: spain, people, spanish, flower, root, interpretation
Number of Pages: 465
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520244966
ISBN-13: 9780520244962
This is the late John A. Crow’s classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and pertinent as when he first wrote it. Crow devoted a lifetime to Hispanic studies and here provides a historical interpretation of Spanish civilization from its earliest beginnings to the present. The scope of this study is remarkable and includes chapters on Roman Spain, the Jews in Spain, the Moors, life in medieval towns, and the Golden Age of Spain, plus a view of Franco’s legacy.
Author: Javier Tusell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: spain, history, present, democracy, dictatorship
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 0631206159
ISBN-13: 9780631206156
This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a b
Author: David Henn
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: spain, jose, cela, camilo, travel, new, old, narratives
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2004-08
List price: $48.50
ISBN-10: 083864015X
ISBN-13: 9780838640159
This is the first book-length study of the six travel narratives published by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Author: Madrid (Spain) A (Spain). Ayuntamiento
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: del, teatro, principe, interior, para, gobierno, reglamento
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2009-08-19
List price: $14.75
ISBN-10: 1113347651
ISBN-13: 9781113347657
Author: Teofilo F. Ruiz
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: spain, history, centuries, crisis
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1405127899
ISBN-13: 9781405127899
A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs. Illuminates Spain’s history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474 Examines the challenges and reforms of the social, economic, political, and cultural structures of the country Looks at the early transformations that readied Spain for the future opportunities and challenges of the early modern Age of Discovery Includes a helpful b
