Violencia : a New History Of Spain: Past, Present And The Future Of The West

Nick Lloyd

A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War's physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today. Fifty years after Franco's death, and almost ninety since the Civil War began, the scars of violence still run deep in Spain. Nick Lloyd traces this legacy through a series of road trips. Travelling through Catalonia and Aragón, among...

Felipe Fernández-Armesto / Manuel Lucena Giraldo

"A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others."—Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to furth...

Giles Tremlett

'Making Francisco Franco's long life and 38 years of dictatorship enjoyable reading is a daunting challenge ... Giles Tremlett nonetheless succeeds magnificently' PAUL PRESTON 'A magisterial, ground-breaking new portrait ... Sets a gold standard in Spanish Civil War history' ELISABETH DRAYSON From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Fran...

Pedro Lains / Leonor Freire Costa / Regina Grafe / Alfonso Herranz-Loncán / David Igual-Luis / Vicente Pinilla / Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar

This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why ...

Luke Stegemann

The miraculous story of Madrid--how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre...

Francisco J. Romero Salvadó

Using a wealth of varied sources, this book is an inspiring and essential gateway to understanding the foundations of modern Spain. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó employs a chronological framework to chart the country's experience, commencing with the Restoration of the Bourbon Monarch in 1874 up to the present day.Modern Spain is a vital contribution to the study and debate of th...

Jason Webster

After Twelve Years In Spain, Jason Webster Had Developed A Deep Love For His Adopted Homeland; His Life There Seemed Complete. But When He And His Spanish Wife Moved Into An Idyllic Old Farmhouse In The Mountains North Of Valencia, By Chance He Found An Unmarked Mass Grave From The Spanish Civil War On His Doorstep.Spurred To Investigate The History Of The Civil War, A Topic Ma...

Jason Webster

Jason Webster was all set to become an academic when his girlfriend dumped him and he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning academe, he headed off instead for Spain in search of the intense emotion of 'duende', intrinsic to flamenco. This is an account of his years spent in Spain. ...

Jason Webster

What is duende?The Art of Flamenco sees Jason Webster revisit the subject which inspired his first book: the mysterious yet essential power which lies at the heart of Spain's most iconic musical expression. Moved by the flamenco dance perfomances of his wife, Salud, Webster combines articles, essays, photographs, excerpts, and new translations of poetry by Federico García Lorca...

Jason Webster

Max Cámara is back!Valencia's most famous police detective makes a long-awaited reappearance in this celebration of his life, his work, and the city he strives to protect. In a collection of articles, essays and an interview with Max himself, this first volume of Jason Webster's new series, Mosaics of Spain, takes us deep into Spanish crime - and one man's unorthodox ways of fi...

Jason Webster

'Andalus' unmasks the neglected Arab ancestry of modern Spain; its food, language, people and culture. The text strikes parallels with the current world situation, finding echoes of the harmony that existed in medieval Spain, and of the religious intolerance that eventually brought about the Inquisition. ...

Jason Webster

In a book, rich with characters and plants, this is a romantic and alluring leap into Spanish rural life with the author and his partner, a flamenco dancer, who buy a farm in a remote, steep valley and set about clearing land, planting and harvesting olives. ...