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  • Escorial

    The Habsburgs and the Golden Age of Spain

    by John Adamson ...
    A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a greater influence than the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Castilian fastness of El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. Their rule in the Iberian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • El Cid

    The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

    by Nora Berend ...
    Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure.El Cid was perhaps the most famous warrior involved in the indiscriminate fighting—irrespective of religion—on the Iberian Peninsula during the eleventh century.In the centuries after his death, he was transformed into a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Dead Ground

    the thrilling new novel in the Spoils of War Collection, set during the Spanish Civil War

    by Graham Hurley ...
    Series Book 9 - Spoils of War
    A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley.Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant - and abandoned - by a man she ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War

    Red Tide Rising

    The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Transatlantic Bondage

    Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico

    Edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel ...
    Series series SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
    This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • How the Spanish Empire Was Built

    A 400 Year History

    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 further its growth.Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Spies for the Sultan

    Ottoman Intelligence in the Great Rivalry with Spain

    Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern eraIn the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence. Translated into English for the first time, Emrah Safa Gürkan's ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Second Punic War in Iberia 220–206 BC

    From Hannibal at the Tagus to the Battle of Ilipa

    by Mir Bahmanyar ...
    Series Book 400 - Campaign
    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, pitting his ... Read more

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  • Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain

    Defining a Democracy, 1960-Present

    This book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times.Beginning with Sección Femenina, the official Francoist women's organization, Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain traces the interplay between Spanish women's policy and international policymaking. In some cases, as with the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Provenance and Possession

    Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

    by K. J. P. Lowe ...
    Series Book 8 - E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
    A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The End of the Spanish Civil War

    Alicante 1939

    The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until they could force ... Read more

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  • Exploring Iberian Counterpoints in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pacific

    Through a number of significant case studies, this volume examines changing Iberian dynamics in the Pacific, bridging the gaps between English and Spanish speaking scholarship to highlight understudied actors and debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The book shifts the predominant emphasis on Anglo-American studies and the historical neglect of Iberian endeavors in this ocean by ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

    This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.Based on primary source materials and the latest historical research, these literary accounts of otherwise unsourced or under-sourced individuals are written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Strangers Within

    The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite

    A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Homage to Catalonia

    by George Orwell ...
    Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter ... Read more

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  • Dialogues

    by Seneca ...
    Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral dialogues - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. These essays are strikingly applicable today, as Seneca ranges widely across subjects such as the shortness of life, tranquility of mind, anger, mercy, happiness, and grief at the loss of a loved one.This superb volume offers the finest ... Read more

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  • Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain

    Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

    by Alun Williams ...
    This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on six Hispano-Latin chronicles, two of which make unusually overt and emphatic use of biblical texts. Of particular importance is the part played by the influence of exegesis that ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

    Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America.Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Fountain of Life

    Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Avicebron, was a Spanish-Jewish poet and philosopher of the eleventh century and his major philosophical work is the "Fons Vitae," or "The Fountain of Life."In this text, Ibn Gabirol uses a Socratic dialog as a framework to discuss his theory of the 'First Cause.' Written in Arabic, the Fons was translated into Latin in the 12th century, The work was attributed ... Read more

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  • Paradise in Hell

    Alcohol and Drugs in the Spanish Civil War

    by Jorge Marco ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Paradise in Hell studies the role played by alcohol, morphine, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines in the Spanish Civil War. The book analyses the moral discourses that were produced around these substances, the policies implemented by civil and military authorities, the consumption by combatants and civilians, and the role they played in the war effort. From these four perspectives, Paradises in ... Read more

    $85.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baltic Human-Animal Histories

    Relations, Trading, and Representations

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt
    This edited volume offers the first overview on human-animal history in the Baltics. Investigating historical entanglements between human and non-human animals from the pre-Christian times to the Soviet period and discussing a wide range of species, the volume integrates transnational study of Baltic history and culture with interdisciplinary human-animal studies. Taking the interrelatedness of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers

    Burial and Commemoration Practices of German Soldiers of the Second World War in Russia and Europe, 1941 – 2023

    Series Book 10 - Studies in Contemporary History
    Today, fallen soldiers of the Second World War find their resting places across the globe. While many nations openly honor their military, Germany maintains a more reserved approach to its war dead. During the war, fallen soldiers were hailed as heroes, but after 1945, the treatment of the deceased and their graves underwent a profound transformation. Janz, focusing on the Eastern Front during ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Mysterious Death of Jan “Anoda” Rodowicz

    Series Book 47 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    Dr. Benken’s book is a case study of the life and death of Jan Rodowicz, nom-de-guerre Anoda, who served as a combatant in the Polish pro-independence underground resistance movement during the Second World War. The operations in which Anoda was involved, his conduct during and after the War, especially in the investigation following his arrest by the Communist security service and the mystery ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Country of Shepherds

    Cultural Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape

    Translated by Grady C. Wray ...
    This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and ... Read more

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