Bosquejo Biografico de Don Beltran de la Cueva, Primer Duque de Alburquerque (Classic Reprint)
by Antonio Rodriguez Villa
Biografia del Senor Don Carlos Luis Maria de Borbon Y de Braganza, Conde de Montemolin
by Ramon Vinader
In this seminal work, first published in Spanish in 1979 and revised for a second edition in 2001, Javier Corcuera charts the emergence and rise of nationalism within the context of a society experiencing tremendous economic, social, and political transformation. He focuses on the figure of Sabino Arana, the founder of Basque nationalism, arguing that his thinking evolved from a traditional vision of outright independence to a position of accommodation of Basque difference within Spain. This evo...
Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts)
Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas, debates and decisions about key political and religious problems in Renaissance Spain. This book studies Catholic thought during the Spanish Renaissance, with the various contributors specifically exploring the ecclesiology and heresiology of the period. Today, these two subjects are considered to be strictly branches of theology, but at the time they were also dealt with in the field...
The Military Revolution and the Trajectory of Spain
by I A A Thompson
1717-LA GUERRA DI SARDEGNA E DI SICILIA1720 vol. 2/2. (Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms 700, #14)
by Giancarlo Boeri, Paolo Giacomone Piana, and Guglielmo Aimaretti
Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road, by Jorge Perez, offers the first comprehensive inquiry about the road genre in Spain. Road narratives have recently received some scholarly attention within the field of Peninsular Studies through a few articles and book chapters, but no book-length study has been published so far. This book investigates how Spanish authors such as Ignacio Martinez de Pison, Ray Loriga, Eugenio Fuentes, and Eugenia Rico, and filmmakers such as Juan Antoni...
Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century - including the forced conversion of its native Muslim population. Written by Francisco Nunez Muley, one of Granada's New Christians, this extraordinary letter lodges a clear-sighted, impassioned protest against the unreasonable and strongly assimilationist laws that required all Granadans to dress, speak, eat, m...
Los Moriscos Espanoles y Su Expulsion, Vol. 2
by Pascual Boronat y Barrachina
History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors (vol 2)
by Henry Coppee
The book is written from a unique perspective, as the author's interest and desire was "to reclaim the men and the events from legends and allegories, and restore them to veritable history." It gives an account of the arrival of the Arabs in Spain, and the civilization they created there.
La Soberana Orden Militar de San Juan de Jerusalen O de Malta
by Unknown Author
Buying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1939-1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain's transition to democracy during the late 1970s. This transition is broadly significant to both a Spanish public still struggling to redefine their society after Franco and to scholars who have long debated the origins of Spain's current democracy, yet many aspects of it remain lar...
Historia de Las Universidades, Colegios Y Demas Establecimientos de Ensenanza En Espana (Classic Reprint)
by Vicente De La Fuente
For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an...
Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister (Hermeneutics of Art, v. 12)
by Pamela A. Patton
Etudes sur la civilisation de l'Espagne musulmane (Medieval Iberian Peninsula, #6)
