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  • TRAVELS THROUGH THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    TRAVELS THROUGH THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    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...
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  • HOW THE SPANISH EMPIRE WAS BUILT
    HOW THE SPANISH EMPIRE WAS BUILT
    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...
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  • EL GENERALÍSIMO
    EL GENERALÍSIMO
    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...
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    37,50 €

  • AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-2000
    AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-2000
    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 ...
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  • MADRID
    MADRID
    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...
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  • MODERN SPAIN
    MODERN SPAIN
    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...
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  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    MICHAEL. REID
    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has...
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    14,99 €

  • SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    WAYNE H. BOWEN
    For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. Moreover, the Protestant Reformation stimulated changes within Spain and other Habsbu...
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  • THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF MODERN SPAIN
    THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF MODERN SPAIN
    NIGEL TOWNSON
    A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...
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  • DON QUIXOTE
    DON QUIXOTE
    MIGUEL. DE CERVANTES
    'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben Okri Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, ...
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    13,75 €

  • ACQUITTALS IN THE SPANISH INQUISITION
    ACQUITTALS IN THE SPANISH INQUISITION
    GUNNAR W. KNUTSEN
    The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of more than 67,000 trials uncovers over 2,500 formal acquittals, more than 6,600 suspended trials, and nearly 2,100 with unknown or no recorded outcome. ...
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  • WEAPONS, WARRIORS AND BATTLES OF ANCIENT IBERIA
    WEAPONS, WARRIORS AND BATTLES OF ANCIENT IBERIA
    FERNANDO QUESADA SANZ
    Winner of Hislibris Award for the 'Best Historical Book', faithfully translated into English for the first time, this book details the equipment, weapons, armor, horse tack, fortifications, tactics and cultures of the units that served as the backbone of the Carthaginian army.In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Iber...
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  • BRITISH BATTLES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    BRITISH BATTLES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    CHARLES J. ESDAILE
    The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe that followed, and it has given rise to myths that have become commonplace since the war ended eighty years ago. Few of these myths are as potent as those associated with the International Brigades, the 45,000 volunteers from many count...
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  • ESPANA: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN
    ESPANA: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN
    GILES TREMLETT
    Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and sty...
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  • A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF CATALONIA
    A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF CATALONIA
    MICHAEL EAUDE
    A history of Catalonia and its struggle for independence, from the 10th century to the present day At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the 100,000-capacity Camp Nou stadium is filled by the roar of "IN-DE-PEN-DÈN-CI-A!" Time stops for a second. History lives in the present... Catalonia's national consciousness has deep roots. There are c...
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  • IAN FLEMING AND OPERATION GOLDEN EYE
    IAN FLEMING AND OPERATION GOLDEN EYE
    MARK SIMMONS
    "Detailed [...] readers with a deep interest in WWII will find this rewarding." -- Publishers WeeklyThis book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.Ian Fleming and Alan ...
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  • SEVEN MYTHS OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST
    SEVEN MYTHS OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST
    MATTHEW RESTALL
    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, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative ...
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  • DEEP SONG
    DEEP SONG
    STEPHEN ROBERTS
    Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) is perhaps Spain's most famous writer and cultural icon. By the age of thirty, he had become the most successful member of a brilliant generation of poets, winning critical and popular acclaim by fusing traditional and avant-garde themes and techniques. He would go on to reinvent Spanish theater too, writing bold, experimental, and often shocki...
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  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPAIN
    JEREMY BLACK
    A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme fr...
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  • CONVERSO NON-CONFORMISM IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN
    CONVERSO NON-CONFORMISM IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN
    KEVIN INGRAM
    This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on...
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  • FOR THE PEOPLE
    FOR THE PEOPLE
    JORGE TAMAMES
    Recent years have witnessed dramatic challenges to established politics across Europe and America. Opposition to business-as-usual has not been limited to the radical right: left populist movements with transformative agendas offer a very different - if equally radical - response to the status quo.Focusing on left populist movements in the contrasting political landscapes of Sp...
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  • FIGHTING FOR SPAIN
    FIGHTING FOR SPAIN
    ALEXANDER CLIFFORD
    In the English-speaking world, the Spanish Civil War is perhaps best remembered through the exploits of thousands of foreign volunteers from across the globe who joined the International Brigades - a force of communists, socialists and others who took their opposition to fascism to extraordinary lengths. Their passionate political commitment to Spain's cause and determination i...
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  • THE PEOPLE'S ARMY IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    THE PEOPLE'S ARMY IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    ALEXANDER CLIFFORD
    Why did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War - and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses in this in-depth study of the People's Army and the critical battles of Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. These battles represented the Republic's best chance of military success, but after bitter fighting its forces were beaten back. F...
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  • SPAIN IN ARMS
    SPAIN IN ARMS
    E. R. HOOTON
    A military history of the Spanish Civil War from January 1937 onwards, uncovering new evidence and overturning much of the received wisdom about the conflict.Spain in Arms is a military history of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish Civil War developed on the battlefield through the prism of eight campaigns between 1937-1939 and shows how many accounts of militar...
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  • THE WAR IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-1600
    THE WAR IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-1600
    FRANCISCO GARCÍA FITZ / JOÃO GOUVEIA MONTEIRO
    War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth century, allowing for a very broad perspective of Iberian history which displays the f...
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  • ISABELLA OF CASTILE
    ISABELLA OF CASTILE
    GILES TREMLETT
    1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...
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  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–39 (2)
    THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–39 (2)
    ALEJANDRO DE QUESADA
    This book offers an extensive overview of the myriad Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. The conflict was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. The study illustrates, textually and visually, how the Republican forces were initially varied in appearance and character. Loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejec...
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  • MUSLIM SPAIN RECONSIDERED
    MUSLIM SPAIN RECONSIDERED
    RICHARD HITCHCOCK
    From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-fifth century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild's military success and Reccared's conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the Gothic role in Iberian history. John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625) authored histories that projected the Got...
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  • THE DREAM OF THE POEM
    THE DREAM OF THE POEM
    PETER COLE
    Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's tr...
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    37,50 €

  • THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN
    THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN
    ANTONY BEEVOR
    "When the first version of this book was published in 1982 under the title, The Spanish Civil War, Gerald Brenan described it as 'by a long way the best, and fairest and the most accurate book upon it'. Over the intervening years, a huge amount of new material has appeared in Spain and from documents finally emerging from Russian, German and other archives. Antony Beevor's Span...
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