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  • CÁDIZ
    CÁDIZ
    HELEN CRISP / JULES STEWART
    This is the tale of Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance. Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart offer a vibrant account of Cádiz past and present, from its ancient founding myths to its reinvention as a trendy tourist destination. They illuminate Cádiz's experiences under Roman an...
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    31,25 €

  • SECOND PUNIC WAR IN IBERIA 220–206 BC
    SECOND PUNIC WAR IN IBERIA 220–206 BC
    MIR BAHMANYAR
    The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome.Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Hannibal of Carthage's siege of Saguntum in 219 BC triggered a conflict that led to immense human and material losses on both sides, ...
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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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    50,00 €

  • HISTORY OF THE MOORS OF SPAIN
    HISTORY OF THE MOORS OF SPAIN
    JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN
    An objective and compelling overview of the Moorish occupation of Spain, from the time of their first landings in Iberia to their final expulsion in 1492, written by one of France's greatest authors. This work became one of the standard histories of the era of Moorish rule in Spain and covered not just the military campaigns but also the cultural achievements of that time.Divid...
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    23,75 €

  • 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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    16,25 €

  • 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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    21,25 €

  • 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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    13,75 €

  • EL CID
    EL CID
    JAMES HARRIS
    EL CID is the oldest Spanish epic poem preserved.? It is based on the true story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, and it takes place during the Spanish Reconquest.? This is the story of a brave man who took on the challenge of recovering his home country after it had been beseiged.? This poem has been completely reworked and carefully adapted in Modern English to allo...
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    24,95 €

  • 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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    52,50 €

  • 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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    34,99 €

  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    WILLIAM CHISLETT
    What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know(R)series, veteran journalist William Chislett provides much-needed political a...
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    16,25 €

  • MEDIEVAL IBERIA
    MEDIEVAL IBERIA
    OLIVIA REMIE CONSTABLE / DAMIAN ZURRO
    For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic advantage culminating in the fall of Muslim Granada and the expulsion of the Jews in the late fifteenth century. Nearly one qua...
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    67,50 €

  • 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 €

  • VISIGOTHIC SPAIN 409 - 711
    VISIGOTHIC SPAIN 409 - 711
    ROGER COLLINS
    This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the history of this period. Presents original theories about how the Visigothic kingdom was governed, about law in the kingdom, about the Arab conquest, and about the rise of Spain as an intellectual force. Takes account of new do...
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    54,95 €

  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    PAUL PRESTON
    UPDATED EDITIONA rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco. No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new ...
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    16,25 €

  • "LAZY, IMPROVIDENT PEOPLE"
    RUTH MACKAY
    Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this ...
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    42,45 €

  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    RAYMOND CARR
    In this up-to-date and engaging tour of Spain through the ages, one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Spain, Sir Raymond Carr, provides an authoritative overview of a country that has played a vital role in the history of the Western world. He tells of prehistoric Spain and of the imposition of Roman rule, which created the idea of Hispania as a single entit...
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    21,25 €

  • THE WORLD OF EL CID
    THE WORLD OF EL CID
    SIMON BARTON / RICHARD FLETCHER / ROSEMARY HORROX / SIMON MACLEAN
    Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037...
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    21,25 €

  • CONQUERORS AND CHRONICLERS OF EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN
    CONQUERORS AND CHRONICLERS OF EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN
    KENNETH BAXTER WOLF
    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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    31,25 €

  • THE ARAB CONQUEST OF SPAIN
    THE ARAB CONQUEST OF SPAIN
    ROGER COLLINS
    This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain. ...
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    39,95 €

  • SAILS & WINDS
    SAILS & WINDS
    MICHAEL EAUDE
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    19,99 €

  • BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
    BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
    KURLANSKY, MARK
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    16,25 €

  • VIOLENCIA : A NEW HISTORY OF SPAIN: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE WEST
    VIOLENCIA : A NEW HISTORY OF SPAIN: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE WEST
    JASON WEBSTER
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  • MOORISH SPAIN
    MOORISH SPAIN
    RICHARD FLETCHER
    Written in the same tradition as John Julius Norwich's engrossing accounts of Venice and Byzantium, Richard Fletcher's Moorish Spain aims to entertain even as it enlightens. He tells the story of a vital period in Spanish history which transformed the culture and society, not only of Spain, but of the rest of Europe as well. Moorish influence transformed the architecture, art, ...
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    18,75 €

  • THE ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD
    THE ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD
    MARIA ROSA MENOCAL
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    21,25 €

  • CERVANTES, THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE BATTLE FOR
    CERVANTES, THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE BATTLE FOR
    ANA MARIA LAGUNA
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    36,25 €

  • EL CID
    EL CID
    VICENTE HUIDOBRO
    In 1928, shortly after his marriage to Ximena Amunátegui, and after meeting the actor Douglas Fairbanks, who expressed interest in the possibility of a new swashbuckler, Huidobro began writing his version of the Cid legend as a novel. The result is a highly readable, if slightly arch, version of the story, that casts aside the style of romantic 19th-century historical fiction i...
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    16,20 €

  • A VANISHED WORLD
    A VANISHED WORLD
    CHRIS LOWNEY
    In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton,...
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    21,85 €