Spain, Paperback

As a result of deteriorating relations with the Soviet Union, foreign policy makers in Washington became willing to enter a series of controversial...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Reinhart DozyTranslator: Francis Griffin StokesNumber of pages: 766Collection: Routledge Library Editions...

Places Flannery O'Connor's work in constructive and collaborative dialogue with Spanish literature and literary aesthetics. Contributors explore th...

Explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New ...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

This book presents specific cases of companies and entrepreneurs that have had their role throughout the history of Spain. The intention is to show...

This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors...

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Reducere. Fray Diego Duran's History of the Indians of New Spain, newly translated by Doris Heyden, is a vivid evocation of the Aztec world before the Spanis...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U...

Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and ...

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between...

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Jane EvansOver the last few decades Spain has become one of the most exciting wine-producing countries in the world. ...

Argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

Reducere. While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest w...

Reducere. While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Conference on Smart Cities, Smart-CT 2017, held in Malaga, Spain, in June 2017. T...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 194Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 216 x 138Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Geoffrey P...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey A. EngelEditor: Mark Atwood LawrenceEditor: Andrew PrestonHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul HorganWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954)Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History (1954) Winner of both the...

Reducere. The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la con...

In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties,...

In this book the author shares his detailed understanding of the wild plants of the region, from plants of the sandy Mediterranean and Atlantic bea...

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-cent...

Reducere. Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ricardo PadronIllustration(s): 35 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Publisher: DOM PublishersAuthor(s): Jean-Francois LejeuneNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 232 x 24Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding o...

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Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Jaume Franquesa BartolomeIllustration(s): 2 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and wh...

Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husban...

DescriptionThis region embraces an impressive range of habitats from the Pyrenees to the sun-drenched Catalan coast. As a consequence the area is r...

A revised and updated edition of the definitive site guide to this bird-rich Spanish region.Southern Iberia is in the top rank of European birding ...

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A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History.

The Mediterranean island of Mallorca is now well-known as a sport climbing destination and has also established itself as the home of Europe's best...

Reducere. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteent...

DescriptionThis study offers a reading of Don Quixote to argue that this work was more than just hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belong...

Explains the very particular characteristics of Spanish infrastructure policy. The author places the historical perspective in contemporary viewpoi...

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Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation's visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technologica...

A fully updated, revised and expanded edition of the popular nature travel guide covering this splendid region of Western Spain. Now increased to 2...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

Reducere. Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expedi...

National Jewish Book AwardHebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish po...

Jim Spain dedicated his life to education, teaching over 40 years of college level courses, between Michigan Technological University, University o...

A reassessment of the regency of Queen Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) during the minority of her son, King Carlos II of Spain, offering a new persp...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Mikaela H. Rogozen-SoltarIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 282Publication da...

Reducere. Every school and public library should update its resources on Spain with this lively and succinct narrative of Spain's long and rich historical ex...

Reducere. This is a rare English account of an important but largely forgotten 20th century colonial conflict: the Rif War in which Spain, and to a lesser ex...

Reducere. "...really informative and up to date..." Liz Rowlinson, A Place in the Sun "logical, useful and just the right amount of information..." Alfredo B...

The Costa Blanca has long been the best known Hot Rock winter sun venue for climbers. It has easy access, loads of quality accommodation, and an am...

This critical anthology provides a selection and critical readings of fictions by Spanish and Latin American women writers, covering a range of fan...

DescriptionSpain Rodriguez's most memorable characters are ferocious femmes fatale: gorgeous and deadly women who can slash and slaughter as fast a...

An eighteenth-century Spanish friar from Galicia, Spain, became an ancestor to countless descendants in the Philippines. This is a journey of one d...

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, a...

Reducere. Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel...

Reducere. Called by Choice "the most comprehensive survey of a magnificent era, " The Jews of Moslem Spain takes the reader on a journey through history, fro...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws attention to those men who take action to end violence against women...

In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espa a Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stanley G. PayneFrom bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished...

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Reducere. 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 fre...

It aims to fill the gap between specialised volumes on specific aspects of Muslim Spain and derivative surveys of the field that lack an academic c...

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

Reducere. The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad...

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945 Beevor's Ardennes 1944: ...